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JetBrains

JetBrains is a software company making developer tools like IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and WebStorm, and creator of the Kotlin programming language.

Known aliases

  • blog.jetbrains.com
  • JetBrains AI Pulse
  • JetBrains Kotlin blog
  • JetBrains Research
  • JetBrains s.r.o.

Current stories

productOne report1 publisher

Band's desktop app gives one developer a single view of several coding agents

Band launched Band for Developers, a desktop app that lets one engineer manage several coding agents from a single dashboard. In SiliconANGLE's account the developer still makes the calls between agents, so the shared context sits with the person.

Publishers:siliconangle.com

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives60
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

JetBrains says its IDE engine, benchmarked by Netflix in Claude Code and Codex, makes coding agents typically 20 to 30% more efficient

Netflix and JetBrains report that a headless IntelliJ code engine made Claude Code and Codex typically 20 to 30% more efficient, up to about 65%. Netflix wrote the daemon that keeps the index warm because JetBrains had not shipped one.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

MPS 2026.2 release candidate adds Linux ARM64 builds, including standalone RCPs

JetBrains' MPS 2026.2 release candidate adds Linux ARM64 support, with a matching bundled JetBrains Java Runtime and standalone RCP builds. Teams that package MPS-based tools can test ARM64 distributions before the final release.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

JetBrains Marketplace groups UI freeze reports for plugins that register its error handler

JetBrains Marketplace now shows plugin authors UI freeze reports attributed to their plugins, grouped by error type. The reports appear only once Marketplace reporting is enabled in the plugin, a plugin.xml change JetBrains says is worth making before it is needed.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives45
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

JetBrains now recommends Kotlin Toolchain 0.13 for most new multiplatform projects

JetBrains now recommends Kotlin Toolchain 0.13 for most new Kotlin Multiplatform projects, the same year it promoted the tool to Alpha. Teams starting a KMP app now have to weigh a pre-1.0 CLI whose main argument is that it sets up each platform's tools for them.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives75
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

JetBrains slips to its first net loss on record revenue of $710 million

JetBrains posted a CZK 315 million net loss in 2025, its first on record, on revenue that grew 6.3% to $710 million. Figures published on dev.to put the strain in costs, so teams on its IDEs should watch how JetBrains prices the AI agent it now ships in all of them.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption35
Hype gap+45
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence35
buildOne report1 publisher

JetBrains and Lund researchers recast AI code review as a trust-calibration problem

JetBrains and Lund University propose review tools that flag per-segment risk in AI-written code, a design shaped with 17 practitioners and a 43-person survey. They argue diff review cannot keep up with agent-sized changes unless tools show reviewers where to read closely.

Reality

Evidence35
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives50
Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher

OpenSSF's CRA guide arrives with EU manufacturers already on a 24-hour reporting clock

OpenSSF published CRA readiness guidance for manufacturers that have owed 24-hour warnings on exploited vulnerabilities since September 11. Open-source stewards do not start reporting until December 2027, so for 15 months the duty sits with product teams alone.

Publishers:runtimewire.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives60
Confidence50
buildOne report1 publisher

JetBrains Air pulls coding agents out of AI chat and into parallel editor sessions

JetBrains opened early access to Air, a plugin and 2026.3 EAP feature that runs a developer's existing coding agents as parallel sessions inside its IDEs. Air needs no JetBrains AI subscription, so a team can trial multi-agent work on the agent plans it already pays for.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives80
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1 can compile Multiplatform common code the way IntelliJ analyzes it

JetBrains' Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1 adds an off-by-default mode that stops Multiplatform common code from compiling against dependencies' platform-only declarations. With the flag on, builds reject the calls IntelliJ already flags as unresolved, so KMP teams are better off finding that breakage on a branch first.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+5
Incentives40
Confidence65
buildConfirmed5 publishers

Go 1.27 lets you delete code: generic methods, four go fix modernizers, a leak profile

Generic methods collapse per-type API sprawl, go fix gains four modernizers, and the goroutineleak profile in runtime/pprof is now generally available. GoLand 2026.2 supports all three.

Publishers:blog.golang.org blog.jetbrains.com dev.to lwn.net phoronix.com

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 66%
Operator
Operator 34%
Investor
Investor 0%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+8
Incentives45
Confidence70
investConfirmed3 publishers

Factory's $5B lands at about a tenth of Cognition's mark from seven days earlier

Two companies selling AI agents to enterprise engineering teams took in at least $2.2 billion of new equity within seven days, each selling about 4 percent of itself, and only one of the two prices has a revenue multiple attached.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 20%
Operator
Operator 22%
Investor
Investor 58%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption35
Hype gap+35
Incentives62
Confidence60
buildConfirmed2 publishers

JetBrains Air Governance extends cost and visibility tracking across AI providers

Six months after introducing JetBrains Central, JetBrains has renamed it Air Governance and made it the place an organization sees and caps what agents from any vendor cost it. The IDE becomes one surface of several.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 40%
Operator
Operator 37%
Investor
Investor 23%

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption20
Hype gap+30
Incentives74
Confidence66
buildOne report1 publisher

GitHub lost 3,800 internal repos to code running with its editor's permissions

A dev.to writeup traces roughly 3,800 exfiltrated GitHub repositories to one trojanised Nx Console install from the official Marketplace, where the sandbox that would have contained it has been an open feature request since 2018.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption28
Hype gap+18
Incentives62
Confidence45
buildOne report1 publisher

Keyword-to-URL mapping has to land before the agent writes the first React component

JetBrains puts weekly AI coding agent use at 90% of professional developers in mid-2026. A dev.to post argues the sites those agents scaffold collapse onto one section order and one URL, and treats page architecture as work that has to precede generation.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence30
Adoption55
Hype gap+30
Incentives60
Confidence40
buildOne report1 publisher

JetBrains ships a 50/50 weight average of two Qwen checkpoints in Junie Local

The merged 27B finished 37 of 100 internal coding tasks against 34 for the fast checkpoint and 39 for the reasoning one, and it did that while emitting 71% fewer output tokens than the 39, with no post-training in the recipe.

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+18
Incentives78
Confidence58
buildOne report1 publisher

Junie /demo builds the app and drives the UI so the reviewer watches instead of clicking

The new Junie CLI mode needs Docker, a generated build plan and a request specific enough to check, and the report it returns marks each check passed, failed or incomplete. JetBrains says it has run the agent on more than 1,500 of its own pull requests.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption32
Hype gap+18
Incentives85
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Running Cline in CI means switching off the approval gate it ships with

Cline's coding agent runs on one engine in four places, licensed Apache 2.0, with a CLI built to run headless inside pipelines and a Node SDK for teams that want to build their own agent on top of it.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption28
Hype gap+22
Incentives55
Confidence34

Earlier coverage

  1. Java 27 couples post-quantum TLS 1.3 to two newly flipped JVM defaults

    Build · September 15, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  2. Grok 4 fails half its patch attempts on Codex's edit format

    Product · September 15, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  3. Attackers exploited JetBrains' own TeamCity bug to operate inside Cadence for 16 days

    Build · August 28, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  4. Junie Local is free. The 64 GB M5 Mac is the price.

    Build · August 24, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers