#intellij-idea-20253

#intellij-idea-20253

PyCharm now offers the option to use debugpy as the default debugger backend, providing the industry-standard Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) that aligns the IDE with the broader Python ecosystem.

New overloads on TarFile.CreateFromDirectory accept a TarEntryFormat parameter, giving direct control over the archive format. Previously, CreateFromDirectory produced Pax archives. The new overloads support all four tar formats—Pax, Ustar, GNU, and V7—for compatibility with specific tools and environments.

Tracy is compatible with Kotlin from version 2.0.0 and Java from version 17. Integrations can be made with SDKs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini. The library also works with common Kotlin/LLM stacks including OkHttp and Ktor clients, as well as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini ones.

Air, now free for MacOS with Linux and Windows versions coming soon, is an agentic development environment, or ADE, built on the idea of integrating the essential tools for managing coding agents into a single coherent experience. Serving as a single workspace where Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Junie CLI can work side-by-side, Air helps developers navigate a codebase and easily switch back and forth between different coding agents.

After streamlining our development and delivery process, we'll ship a new Stable release every week. Endgame will now be folded into our weekly activities. This acceleration is enabled by AI automation, including a one-click experience for creating test plans from feature request issues, reducing manual steps previously required.

The software industry is collectively hallucinating a familiar fantasy. We visited versions of it in the 2000s with offshoring and again in the 2010s with microservices. Each time, the dream was identical: a silver bullet for developer productivity, a lever managers can pull to make delivery faster, cheaper, and better. Today, that lever is generative AI, and the pitch is seductively simple: If shipping is bottlenecked by writing code, and large language models can write code instantly, then using an LLM means velocity should explode.

From the discussions in the Jakarta EE Platform call[s] the last couple of weeks, it looks like we won't see a release of Jakarta EE 12 on this side of summer (on the Northern Hemisphere at least). The reason is that since Jakarta EE 11 was delayed by a year, most of the vendors are currently working on their implementations.

The reason for this is Snap - a Linux application packaging format - creates a local Trash folder for each VS Code version, one that's separate from the system-managed Trash, according to a VS Code bug report dating back to November 11, 2024. Not only that, but Snap keeps older versions of VS Code after updates, potentially multiplying the number of local Trash folders and the trashed-but-not-deleted files therein. Emptying the system Trash folder doesn't affect the local instances.

On December 19, 2025, Cursor acquired Graphite for more than $290 million. CEO Michael Truell framed the move simply: code review is taking up a growing share of developer time as the time spent writing code keeps shrinking. The message is clear. AI coding tools have largely solved the generation speed. Now the industry is betting that review is the next constraint to break.

If there's one thing I want you to take away from this article, it's this: testing harness is the most important thing for vibe-coding. Not prompt engineering, not fancy plugins, just constraining your AI outside AI toolchain. I'm calling it harness because it's not only tests. It's tests, types, linters, and any other automated checks you can put in place. The more you rely on AI, the more harness you need.