A developer released a fork of ThinkRail, JetBrains' open-source IDE shell for AI coding agents, that adds a plugin API so the environment can host agents beyond the built-in Pi. The fork makes Claude…
JetBrains detailed the parsing, chunking, and vectorization stages of the RAG pipeline behind JetBrains Context, its semantic code search platform built to give LLM agents citable evidence from real r…
Cline, an open source autonomous coding agent licensed under Apache 2.0, has surpassed 67,000 GitHub stars and 7,000 forks, positioning itself as a free alternative to proprietary tools like Claude Co…
RTK, a Rust proxy that claims to cut LLM token consumption by 60-90% and has crossed 80,000 GitHub stars, produced zero reduction in actual API billing in a Quesma benchmark that spent over $1,500 acr…
JetBrains released version 2026.2.2 of Rider, ReSharper, and its .NET tools, adding an AI Agent Setup widget to Rider's status bar that lists supported coding-agent features including MCP tools, skill…
JetBrains released the Kotlin Benchmark, an official SWE-bench-style evaluation that grades AI coding agents on 105 real repository-level Kotlin engineering tasks, with Claude Code running Opus 4.7 xh…
Java 27 was released on September 15, 2026, delivering nine JEPs, four of them final, with four preview features continuing to mature and one JEP remaining an incubator feature, according to JetBrains…
A developer has released Tuim, an open-source terminal IDE written in Zig that embeds Neovim as its editing engine via MessagePack-RPC and the ext_multigrid UI extension. Tuim splits responsibilities …
Cursor outperforms GitHub Copilot for Python projects with deep codebases because it indexes the entire local project, letting it reference installed library versions and types across 20+ modules, whi…
GitHub released enterprise managed permissions for Copilot agent operations on September 9, 2026, letting Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise admins block shell commands, require approval for file…
A developer built Git Brain, a visual Git GUI extension for VS Code, Cursor and other VS Code-compatible IDEs that brings a JetBrains-style Git experience with a visual commit graph, 3-way merge edito…
A developer argues that AI coding agents are already capable of generating roughly half of production code, citing JetBrains' 2026 Developer Ecosystem survey of over 15,000 professional developers in …
JetBrains's SkillsBench benchmark found that RTK (Rust Token Killer), a terminal-output compression tool with over 79,000 GitHub stars, produced no consistent cost savings for AI coding agents, with D…
GitHub shipped its September 7 Copilot weekly release, adding Jira integration to the Copilot app, adaptive model orchestration via Project HydraFusion in Copilot CLI, agent automation in VS Code 1.13…
The "Thursdays with Koog" series concluded after 11 weeks with a post examining Koog's near-complete focus on hosted models and its limits for local, on-device inference. The post notes Koog's only on…
JetBrains and the Rust Foundation launched a livestream series exploring Rust and AI, featuring a coding agent built with Rig and Ratatui. Rig, an open-source Rust library maintained by Stephen Korzen…
GitHub has released an update for Copilot in JetBrains IDEs that introduces enterprise-managed sandbox policies in public preview, enabling administrators to centrally configure sandbox behavior, incl…
A new report highlights that advanced AI debugging assistants are significantly improving software development efficiency, with top-tier tools resolving 41% of production bugs within 24 hours compared…
Explyt product manager reviews a debugging session in which a developer used the company's AI agent for JetBrains IDEs to resolve a single symptom in a Kotlin, Spring Boot, and Kafka payments system, …
Roberto Penco, PhD, argues that agentic AI is shifting software development from individual 10× developers to organizations achieving 1000× gains, citing OpenAI's Codex generating about one million li…