JetBrains argues the IDE still matters in the agentic era

JetBrains published a blog post arguing IDEs remain essential in the agentic era as the cockpit for running, verifying, and navigating AI agents, while developer Sam Witteveen shared how he now mainly uses IDEs to review diffs, navigate code, and run tests rather than write code.

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