Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by NumerousProcess » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 8:47 PM UTC

Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains
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Re: Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by gavinray » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 9:15 PM UTC

Not to rain on their parade, but I do find it at least a little bit funny that Kotlin Multiplatform is JetBrains's prerogative and the app is Mac only, lol...

Re: Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by gfody » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 9:31 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #2

Not to rain on their parade, but I do find it at least a little bit funny that Kotlin Multiplatform is JetBrains's prerogative and the app is Mac only, lol...

market research shows that 100% of the people interested in this style of development are mac users

Re: Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by buster » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

gavinray wrote: post #2

Not to rain on their parade, but I do find it at least a little bit funny that Kotlin Multiplatform is JetBrains's prerogative and the app is Mac only, lol...

It's a preview, isn't it? The pages says win, mac, Linux.

Re: Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by piker » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 9:46 PM UTC

The litmus test for the utility of this kind of thing is does JetBrains prefer to use Air to develop Air--i.e., is it self-hosting?

Re: Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by GiorgioG » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 9:48 PM UTC

Can't wait for this AI shit to be over so they can get back to their bread & butter...great dev tools.

Re: Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by davey48016 » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 9:50 PM UTC

buster wrote: post #4

gavinray wrote: post #2

Not to rain on their parade, but I do find it at least a little bit funny that Kotlin Multiplatform is JetBrains's prerogative and the app is Mac only, lol...

It's a preview, isn't it? The pages says win, mac, Linux.

Yeah. Windows, Linux, and Web are listed under "What's Coming"

Re: Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by cheptsov » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC

Finally a step in the right direction. This brings the best of two worlds: the lightweightness of Fleet and agents battle-tested with Junie/IntelliJ.

Congrats to the team. Can’t wait to try it.

Re: Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by NitpickLawyer » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 10:02 PM UTC

GiorgioG wrote: post #6

Can't wait for this AI shit to be over so they can get back to their bread & butter...great dev tools.

> their bread & butter...great dev tools.

A cursor style "tab" model, but trained on jetbrains IDEs with full access to their internals, refactoring tools and so on would be interesting to see.

Re: Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains

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Post by ElijahLynn » Wed, Dec 03, 2025, 10:06 PM UTC

GiorgioG wrote: post #6

Can't wait for this AI shit to be over so they can get back to their bread & butter...great dev tools.

Umm, it ain't ever gonna be over, it is a new era.

We need to adapt to new ways of thinking and ways of working with new tooling. It is a learning curve of sorts. What we want is to solve problems, the new tooling enables us to solve problems better by letting us free up our thinking by reducing blockers and toil tasks, giving us more time to think about higher level problems.