JetBrains launches Air, an open platform system for agentic software development
JetBrains expands beyond the individual IDE to coordinate AI agents, teams, and governance across the software development lifecycle.
What to know
- JetBrains Air shifts the company's 26-year focus from individual developer tools to a broader platform coordinating agents, teams, and organizational governance across the software development lifecycle.
- The platform includes Junie (JetBrains' coding agent), IDE integration, team workflows, and organizational governance tools, plus the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for multi-vendor agent compatibility.
- JetBrains positioned Air as an open system designed around the belief that no single vendor will dominate agentic development—developers will need to choose agents and models suited to different tasks.
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JetBrains introduces Agent Client Protocol for multi-vendor compatibility — JetBrains released the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) to standardize connections between IDEs and agents, enabling developers to discover and use compatible agents from different vendors while working inside JetBrains IDEs. The ACP Registry allows interoperability across the broader agent ecosystem.
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JetBrains announces JetBrains Air platform
JetBrains unveiled Air, a unified system of products spanning individual development, team coordination, organizational governance, and multi-vendor agent support. The platform includes Junie (JetBrains' coding agent), Air in IDEs, Air Teams, and Air Governance, alongside the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for third-party agent integration.
“The era in which the whole software development system can be contained in one window is ending.”
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I’ve been a happy paying JetBrains customer for 10+ years. This year I decided not to renew. It’s just not worth it anymore. I don’t spend as much time as i used to in an IDE. And their AI offerings are not so great. I gave Junie a solid try, but it was always too far behind the competition. I gave Air a solid try, but it was full of bugs. I wish…
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Is anyone using any of JetBrains AI offerings? I feel like they are burning piles of money on areas I never hear anyone talking about using. The only thing I ever used was their AI plugin, tried Junie once, but the rest just seems like noise I dont care about.
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I would love to see JetBrains win, I like them as a business, though unfortunately I haven't been using their products in a long time now.
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JetBrains begins public experiments with agentic development environments — Six months before the Air announcement, JetBrains started publicly experimenting with agentic development environments and introduced JetBrains Central as an open control and execution system for agent-driven development.
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I've been an Ultimate subscriber for many years. I started out using ReSharper in Visual Studio, then picked up ReSharper C++ when I began writing C++, and eventually moved to Rider. As I also work with Java and Python, I just went ahead and bought Ultimate. Even though my company provides Visual Studio and other tools, JetBrains has given me a…
- Sep 22
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We just haven't had the IDE moment for agentic development yet.I suspect we won't for several years yet - and it's likely going to be way more integrated/specialized for specific technology than our previous ides were.But you're unlikely to go back once you've the full stack integrated with full observability, release pipeline, system integration…
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Hi, JetBrainer here with my two cents. You're right, there's a crop of folks barely opening their IDE, who don't really even want to look at code anymore, much less type any code.But there's still a group that needs to own the result, who still read code and write code. Folks who still believe in developers and development. This group might not be…
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I'm biased (I'm a dev advocate at JetBrains), but I also still actively write code and use PhpStorm almost daily.Yes, we're writing less code, but the job of "a programmer" has always been about so much more than _writing_ code. It's about code reviews, QA, debugging, discovery, and maintenance; much more than the "writing" part. Anyone with…
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I've been paying customer for 15+ years, I wish I can continue using them another 15 years, but the current trend is terrible.They had the best IDE. Now they went all into AI, trying to compete on another people's field, and the cost of that is diminishing their main product. Do they really want to compete with Anthropic? Instead of that they…
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I have Ghostty with Claude open with one tab per project. Then I have IntelliJ open also with one tab per project.I find this setup works great for actually participating in the development. To understand what is happening and keep the mental model of what the project is about. Review in progress work in IntelliJ, use the Git, Database and…
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Semi-OT, but does anyone here know what exactly happened at JetBrains?Their IDEs have been nosediving for years now in a way usually reserved to "has been acquired by private equity". But they have not been acquired by private equity as far as I can tell.I'm writing this from my laptop, where each keypress in a .md file in WebStorm makes the fan…
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I'm realizing I am a minority, but my IDE is becoming MORE valuable to me, not less, with LLMs.The volume of code is only increasing. Problems that used to be solved with a few lines (or even removing lines) are now solved with changes across 10 different files.My IDE is invaluable for me when trying to navigate this stuff. I am completely…
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Agree, and I have been an Ultimate Edition license holder since like 2013.I have opened an IDE for very very few things in the last 9 months or so. Im still renewing a license at this point mostly because I like JetBrains the company and it's not a financial burden but they are in a bad place.
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I like JetBrains as a company, their pricing for individuals made a lot of sense, you buy the license and you can keep using perpetual license for that version, if you want to buy newer version, you pay slightly less than year before.I want them to succeed, but can't see how they can win in this agentic world, where people are barely opening their…
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I’ll try this out but after over a decade as a paid JetBrains customer I’ve been looking at the door. I still love their IDE and moving around the code in it but the IDE uses way too many resources. Even with me excluding the worktrees folder it gets stuck indexing/processing when I spin up new worktrees to the point that I’ve found myself killing…
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people need to stop trying to build the same walled gardens with these development environments. nobody has time to buy in at this point or try to grok what your specific vision of "agentic development" is.