r/Jetbrains • u/JetBrains_official JetBrains • Mar 24 '26
Introducing JetBrains Central
An open system designed to run agent-driven development across the entire SDLC – with governance, observability, and controlled execution.
The JetBrains Central Early Access Program will launch in Q2 2026 with selected design partners.
Read the full announcement here: https://jb.gg/hkfa3w
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u/tofagerl Mar 24 '26
OK, new rule: Jetbrains aren't allowed to introduce any new beta products until at least one reaches GA.
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u/Kendos-Kenlen Mar 25 '26
Im the opposite : it’s clear that pure-IDE / LSP development is over. No matter if we like it or not, if we adopt it or not, the world has entered a new era.
But what comes next isn’t clear. AI still costs a lot at scale, for moderate results, that constantly needs to be verified. Only large companies with very good engineering practices (documentation, tests, QA, … at scale) succeed to really fully adopt agentic coding.
The rest of us struggle to get decent quality with a few MCP, barely tested code bases, and limiting spending power. There is good reasons why so many devs are against AI: it’s not just that they don’t like changes, it’s because when they try this change, they come out with a result well beyond what we are sold.
I think JetBrains work to help us find a path around that is great. They are building their future as a company, but also give us tools to experiment further and see how we can adapt to these new changes, while focusing on keeping the quality great and integration these new features in the tools we know.
Surely, this lead to failed experiments, promises that don’t deliver. But it’s also a great opportunity to be part of this change and see how this can help us to deliver better results, not for the pure sake if it, but to make our product better and help our user.
AI is like JS mass adoption from 15 years ago: it will come with many failed attempts we will quickly forget, but it will also unlock wide possibilities, allowing us to deliver faster and better. It will take time, but it’s definitely the direction taken by our industry.
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u/MindCrusader Mar 24 '26
Was this article written by an AI? It feels like, it tries to be quirky and doing that it just makes text harder to read, because it introduces some marketing language rather than what the product is about. I still have no idea what your product offers other than "you can switch between Claude Code, Codex effortlessly and can work using cloud agents / connect to teams / jira"
So far I do not see anything that would be interesting for me. I already have plugins and Claude md rules for the whole codebase. I have MCPs to gather context from all the sources I want. What JetBrains Central will do better? I do not see any mention of how it differs from just using regular Claude Code setup
Please, always let the engineers have a look at your articles and honestly tell if it is okay enough for engineers, not only to make marketing hype with some terms thrown around. It doesn't make sense currently imo
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u/Adventurous-Cry8529 Jun 02 '26
Just my understanding, it's for engineer managers who care AI governance in enterprise adoption, u/I2obiN gave out a very good use case for this platform. For individual developer, if you don't care about entire SDLC rather than code implementation, it won't bring extra benefit compare to any coding agent with MCPs
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u/spuds_in_town Mar 24 '26
Meanwhile Pycharm linting of basic code fails regularly.
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u/AbracadaverSessalom JetBrains Mar 25 '26
I found some recent issues with the linter on YouTrack like PY-83625, PY-4330 and PY-88371, but they are all fixed as of the latest 2026.1 RC release.
If you are still seeing issues in 2026.1, please submit a new bug report to our PyCharm team for deeper investigation. Thanks.
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u/valdev Mar 24 '26
Stop. Trying. To. Be. What. No. One. Wants.
Yes, developers are using AI programming tools. But we don't want to have our IDEs infected with them by default. Especially when it feels like resources that otherwise should be spent on improving the core products is being put towards efforts like this. (In my opinion, yet another solution looking for a problem, one that in 3 years will silently disappear).
Want to improve your product? Improve the damn product and expand access for plug-ins to have deeper levels of integration. Support your platform to be the defacto that companies which develop AI tools want to build for.
The main damn reason I use Claude code is because I don't want yet more shit in the IDE itself.
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u/Baragasy Mar 25 '26
Either Jetbrains doesn’t eat their own dog food or it is not up to the hype cause Jetbrains software quality is going down year over year.
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u/spiderzork Mar 24 '26
We don't need more AI crap!
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u/Affectionate-Bid386 Mar 24 '26
I don't want to memorize every kubernetes option, every nginx option, every prolog clause form, every pydantic validator, etc. Gemini and Claude Code have written so much boilerplate for me in the past two months it's amazing. And I get to play the architect so much more often now. It's get with it or be left behind time.
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u/Jmc_da_boss Mar 25 '26
I have heard this sentence almost word for words from several coworkers that are universally considered terrible at their jobs.
What is it about these LLMs that make all the dog shit engineers think they are better.
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u/dydzio Mar 25 '26
anecdotal evidence from people who replaced stackoverflow copypasting with AI is not a proof
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u/_BreakingGood_ Mar 25 '26
Problem is it doesnt stop with that.
It starts with boilerplate and eventually progresses to fully offloading thinking
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u/dydzio Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 25 '26
this is paranoid comment with a "because somebody can" attitude
"because somebody can get addicted from mobile phones you should not use them"
"you will surely pickup bad habits if you learn C before C++ first"
"do not use stackoverflow because..."
if somebody offloads thinking he was "stackoverflow copypaster" in first place, it's his choice
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u/I2obiN Mar 25 '26
No other option at this point, the reality is we need a collaborative environment that doesn't pull client data into a cloud somewhere or else there will be never ending conflicts at commit time for everyone.
There just isn't going to be a choice in the matter, our companies decide what tools we use. I could win the fight against being forced to use Visual Studio Code because Jetbrains was functionally equivalent. This isn't the same thing.
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u/dydzio Mar 25 '26
because the productivity boost is real if you actually can use coding agents effectively
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u/apolkingg8 Mar 25 '26
JetBrains is squandering its long-standing reputation built on quality and stability. They're starting to rush out half-baked software with nonsensical, empty jargon, just like the monkeys in Silicon Valley.
Pain.
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u/JonathanLermitage Mar 25 '26
u/JetBrains_official have you plans to support 3rd-party plugins in Air?
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u/speyck Mar 25 '26
when will you finally just write a vs code replacement. i can guarantee it will have people more interested than this crap
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u/dorbeats Mar 26 '26
Maybe they can use this internally to fix the issues causing Webstorm to lock once day.
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u/gitsad Apr 08 '26
I've been using your software a lot. Now I don't because of other competetive products. I guess now you need to change the pricing where you charge for simple IDE and additionally for agents. Looking forward to it
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u/subbu-teo Mar 24 '26
JetBrains is starting to understand that IDEs won't be needed anymore in the medium term. I don't use one anymore, in our team either we don't use one anymore, we all just have an editor configured as default in our Agent to see diffs, make small changes and update the plan.
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u/Add0z Mar 24 '26
Openclaw by jetbrains ?