GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, and Claude for code completion while understanding how to validate and optimize AI-generated output will set developers apart in 2026, according to industry reports. McKinsey …
John Arundel, writing for an unspecified publication, presents a six-step workflow called 'Code like a PIRATE' for using JetBrains' AI coding agent Junie, emphasizing planning, iterating, reviewing, a…
Kilo Code has released a native Kotlin plugin for JetBrains IDEs built on JetBrains' split mode API, with frontend and backend modules separated so the UI stays local while indexing and execution run …
JetBrains announced that IntelliJ IDEA's Java and Kotlin intelligence is now available as a preview extension for third-party editors, starting with VS Code and its forks such as Cursor. The Java & Ko…
JetBrains is celebrating Kotlin's 15th birthday by inviting the community to create birthday postcards, upload photos, and share wishes or predictions for the language's future. The celebration is par…
JetBrains has made KotlinLLM, its research prototype for delegating runtime logic to a large language model from Kotlin code, open source and public. The IntelliJ IDEA plugin, announced in July, adds …
JetBrains, the software development company, reported that its AI development expenses increased roughly 10x over the past six months, prompting the company to implement new cost-control measures. The…
GitHub deprecated Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all Copilot experiences on July 31, with no grace period, marking the sixth model deprecation since January 2026. GitHub recommends migrating…
JetBrains released the Kotlin Benchmark, an official benchmark for evaluating AI coding agents on Kotlin software engineering tasks, with 105 tasks from open-source repositories. In the first results,…
GitHub Copilot offers a genuinely useful free tier and a low-cost paid tier, making it generally worth trying for developers who write code most days, according to a practical breakdown of its feature…
SWE-rebench's latest leaderboard shows frontier coding models within 2.2 points of each other on resolved rate, with Fable 5 (Anthropic) at 64.5%, Grok 4.5 (xAI) at 63.8%, Opus 5 (Anthropic) at 63.4%,…
BlackFlare, a new macOS menu bar app, keeps Macs awake during Claude Code and Codex sessions and sends notifications to Mac, Telegram, or Slack when tasks finish or need input. The app, which requires…
JetBrains open-sourced KotlinLLM, an IntelliJ IDEA plugin prototype that delegates runtime logic to a large language model (LLM) from Kotlin code, enabling code generation, runtime updates, and hot-re…
Collie, a new local AI harness that runs on a user's machine, can drive the real browser, desktop, screen, and code while keeping everything private and verified. The tool, built by Collie HQ, feature…
JetBrains released Rider 2026.2 on July 22, introducing Agent Skills that expose IDE analysis capabilities—profiler data, coverage maps, refactoring intelligence, and framework knowledge—directly to e…
A controlled test of the token-saving tool Headroom on 25 senior software engineering tasks using Anthropic's Claude found that while it cut input tokens by 39%, it did not reduce costs due to cache b…
XAI's Grok 4.5 reasoning model is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, supporting up to 500,000 tokens and text/image inputs for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. The model is available t…
A developer built a starter 'Hello World' AI agent using Kotlin and Google's native Kotlin Agent Development Kit (ADK). The agent uses Gemini to decide when to call a tool discovered from a local Kotl…
JetBrains has opened the State of CI/CD 2026 Survey, inviting software developers, DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and engineering leaders to share insights on CI/CD tooling, AI's impact on deli…
A developer has created Agent-Up commits, a local commit proposal queue for agent-assisted development that preserves logical slices of work without controlling Git history. Agents enqueue proposals s…