JetBrains launched Air EAP in IntelliJ, PyCharm, and WebStorm, letting developers run Codex, Claude, and Copilot in parallel using Git worktrees. The early access program is free to try.…
JetBrains introduced an optional "separate compilation" scheme for Kotlin Multiplatform in Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1, enabled by setting kotlin.kmp.separateCompilation=true in gradle.properties. The experime…
GitHub released Copilot for JetBrains 1.18.0, adding AI-assisted tool approvals in public preview that automatically approve low-risk tool calls while still prompting for higher-risk actions. The upda…
Mona Hidalgo, a solo technical founder based in rural New Mexico, launched Code Tracker AI (CTAI), a JetBrains IDE plugin that explains existing code in plain English, on Product Hunt. The plugin comb…
A senior software engineer turned tech lead for an entire public product portfolio described adopting Gemini Code Assist, Claude Code, and JetBrains AI Assistant across professional and personal codin…
A developer built Logical Folders, a VSCode and IntelliJ plugin that displays flat filenames as a virtual directory tree without moving files on disk. The plugin uses a parsePath function to split fil…
A free MCP server that exposes authenticated browser-session automation through `session_*` tools has been released, allowing AI clients to drive the user's own Chrome profile and live logged-in sessi…
Databricks has open-sourced Metals v2, a Java and Scala language server designed for multi-million line codebases, enabling lightweight editors like Cursor, VS Code, and Neovim to handle large JVM mon…
A developer's analysis argues that the real bottlenecks in AI coding assistants are 'cognitive debt'—the mental overhead of verifying AI-generated code—and technical limitations in Language Server Pro…
Google released Android Studio Quail 2, which redesigns Agent Mode to allow multiple AI conversations in parallel, integrates LeakCanary for faster memory leak detection, and introduces Android Bench,…
A developer comparing AsciiDoc, Markdown, and HTML for AI specifications found Markdown best for AI working documents, AsciiDoc for curated human-reviewed specs, and HTML only as a publishing target. …
Android Studio Quail 2 is now stable, introducing concurrent agentic workflows, native LeakCanary integration for up to five times faster memory leak tracing, and context-aware crash remediation via A…
Kilo Code launched a native plugin for JetBrains IDEs, rebuilt from scratch in Kotlin with Swing UI to replace its previous webview-based extension. The plugin offers chat sessions, slash commands, re…
JetBrains launched AI for Teams and Organizations, a governance suite that unifies fragmented AI-assisted software development by providing a centralized control layer for managing coding assistants, …
A developer compares using Claude Code to an addictive productivity drug, describing how it has replaced most of their manual coding and made them fear losing their skills. They find Opus 4.8 more acc…
Augment is sunsetting its IDE extensions for JetBrains, giving users about a month's notice, and moving upmarket to enterprise teams with its Cosmos agent platform. The decision has disappointed many …
The article describes a batch script designed to reset the trial period for JetBrains software, specifically ReSharper C# and C++. The script works by deleting evaluation license folders and registry …