GitHub released an update to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains that adds improved OpenTelemetry configuration, model management controls, and support for MCP servers and custom agents in Claude agent flows…
JetBrains shipped IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 on July 22, making GitHub Copilot a native agent in every JetBrains IDE without requiring a separate plugin or ACP Registry configuration. The integration elimin…
JetBrains tested the Caveman token-compression skill on Claude Code 2.1.200 and found it saves only about 8.5% of output tokens on real agentic tasks, far below the advertised 65%. The skill, which fo…
GitHub technologist Burke Holland argues that mastering the existing features of GitHub Copilot—the 'harness'—is more effective than chasing new AI tools or prompts. He recommends starting with the Gi…
Vibe coding is not dead but is being renamed as its original meaning splits into two distinct modes, according to an analysis of industry data and statements from its inventor Andrej Karpathy and Goog…
Luca Palmieri from Mainmatter and Vitaly Bragilevsky from JetBrains advised that the safest C and C++ to Rust migration strategy is incremental migration, starting with isolated modules and expanding …
Octo, a new tool from an unnamed developer, addresses the collaboration gap that emerges when AI coding tools accelerate individual output. While AI assistants like Cursor and CodeBuddy NPC boost indi…
JetBrains benchmarked Rust Token Killer (RTK), a compression proxy for Claude Code, and found it increased token costs by 7.6% at low reasoning effort (p=0.004) with no measurable change at high effor…
A developer reports that their token-saving SDK for AI agent workflows has only 400 GitHub stars since mid-July, attributing slow adoption to a gap between users who understand AI workflows and those …
An open-source developer reports that their project, Tura, which uses state machines to reduce LLM token consumption by 80% in long-running tasks, has only gained 400 GitHub stars since its July 16 re…
A Bing malvertising campaign used a malicious public Claude Artifact hosted on Anthropic's legitimate claude.ai domain to distribute the SectopRAT remote-access trojan, compromising at least 29 organi…
Cursor offers superior Python codebase awareness and complex logic accuracy compared to GitHub Copilot, according to a comparison of the two AI coding tools. Cursor indexes entire local repositories i…
MergeForge, an open-source VS Code and Cursor extension, brings a JetBrains-style three-pane conflict resolver to the editors, paired with an AI assistant that reads the repository context before sugg…
Anaconda acquired Kilo Code on July 15, 2026, pulling the open-source AI coding agent into its enterprise platform. Kilo routes 10 trillion tokens per month through 500-plus models for 3 million devel…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman envisions intelligence as a utility, but a JetBrains study of junior developers found that heavy reliance on AI coding assistants prevented learning, with participants skipping p…
JetBrains released Rider 2026.2, which opens the IDE's intelligence to AI coding agents through a new set of agent skills covering testing, profiling, refactoring, and Microsoft .NET workflows, and ad…
JetBrains released ReSharper 2026.2, introducing ACP-based AI agent support in Visual Studio with Junie in Preview, enabling developers to choose their own agents and models without vendor lock-in. Th…
Zed Industries' Agent Client Protocol (ACP), an open standard for connecting AI coding agents to editors, has been adopted by JetBrains and Amazon's Kiro IDE, with 25+ agents including Claude Code and…
JetBrains released RubyMine 2026.2, introducing agentic debugging that lets an AI agent investigate problems using the debugger, native GitHub Copilot integration via a partnership with Microsoft, and…
A new documentary, 'The Java Story: The Official Documentary,' has been released on YouTube, tracing the 30-year evolution of the Java programming language from its origins at Sun Microsystems to its …