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The IDE is evolving into a central orchestrator for agentic workflows
◆ 75RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack2h ago
JetBrains is betting that agents will inhabit the IDE rather than replace it. This signals that you should build AI developer tools as deep integrations within existing editors rather than trying to move developers to entirely new standalone environments.
Takeaways
- JetBrains Air positions the IDE as the primary host for AI agents.
- Incumbents are aggressively integrating agentic capabilities to prevent platform displacement.
- Focus AI tool development on IDE integration rather than building standalone editors.
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“One of the most significant steps in our 26-year history”: JetBrains goes big on agentic development — and bets the IDE still matters
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