First run is 3,000 units, shipping March 2027. Reserving costs nothing and holds your place in the queue.
No. The difference is the harness. A chatbot returns text and leaves you to act on it. Slate plans, calls tools that change real state, checks each result, and stops when a step fails. You can read every call it made afterwards.
For small projects and edits, yes. For a large codebase and a long debugging session, no, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. It is for the work you would otherwise not do at all because the laptop was at home.
You see it, at the step it happened, and the run stops there rather than building on a bad result. Every change is a commit, so reverting is one action.
Do not trust it, test it. Put the phone in aeroplane mode and use it for a day. Everything the agent does still works, because there is nowhere for the work to go.