JetBrains
A suite of intelligent development tools
4.9•69 reviews•1.7K followers
A suite of intelligent development tools
4.9•69 reviews•1.7K followers
Powerful IDEs for most programming languages and technologies along with products for team collaboration.
This is the 26th launch from JetBrains. View more
JetBrains Air
Launched this week
JetBrains Air is built for agent-driven development. It brings your favorite coding agents – Codex, Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, and Junie – into one coherent workflow designed for real codebases.
Air helps you define tasks precisely, run them in isolation, and review the results with full code intelligence – all in one place.
Download Air – free for macOS. Windows and Linux versions coming soon.
Launch Team
Kona
I can't recommend this product, because I've tried to make it work and it just doesn't. Command execution didn't start (it got stuck in a scheduled state). I've tried to reach out to @JetBrains on X, but no reply. Eventually I found an issue in their issue tracker, started to wait for the resolution and guess what? The issue is gone now. I used to love JetBrains, I'm paying for WebStorm and JetBrains AI (Ultimate), but this is the last year I'm doing it, because the frustration from their products is immeasurable nowdays.
oh that's good feedback. what alternatives have you considered?
Kona
@fmerian I haven't tried many, to be honest, because Codex desktop works like a charm. The only downside is that there is no $100 plan, many people would love that!
As a middle-out option between Plus and Pro? makes sense.
You're spot on re: Codex. I really like the unified UI, better than running tabs in @Claude Code. On the other hand, being limited to @OpenAI 's models is a blocker to me.
Full disclosure: I'm currently enjoying using @Axel (open-source alternative).
Looks great so far. Would be cool if you could add a live comparison view between agents in future updates.
Confs.tech
@trevor_nicholas2 Hi, Trevor! Ekaterina from the Air team here. Thanks for the suggestion! Would you like to see how different agents perform on the same task? Or do you have something else in mind?
Been using JetBrains for years and their database tool window still feels like having a senior DBA sitting next to me - caught a production query that would've cost us $3k/day in unnecessary joins last week. The way they surface performance hints while you're writing SQL is almost unfair to other IDEs.
Having multiple AI agents in one coherent workflow is the right direction. I've been using Claude Code as my primary dev tool and the biggest friction is switching contexts when you need a different model's strengths. Being able to run them side by side and compare outputs on the same codebase solves a real problem. Curious how it handles conflicts when two agents suggest different approaches to the same task.
LiveDemo
Great,
I am a fan of all JetBrains products,
I hope this fixes the problem of using different AI models inside JetBrains
Everything just flows seamlessly—no bumps, no confusion, just pure elegance
@katyaprigara frame this!
been a user of IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio for ages hence this launch feels personal.
Congrats on the launch team!
@theanimeshs curious: what are your favorite JetBrains plugins?
@fmerian need to revisit and see, nowadays i'm coding more in ts, nextjs ecosystem
prominent ones I remember are SonarLint, Lombok etc (while building Java & Android apps)
& great thread bdw, got to know a lot more about what JetBrains is upto these days :)