IntelliJ IDEA Goes LSP: Java and Kotlin Intelligence Comes to VS Code, Cursor, and Agentic Flows - The JetBrains Blog

kept by eddie aug 04

JetBrains released a preview extension bringing IntelliJ IDEA's Java and Kotlin intelligence to VS Code and Cursor via LSP, with free 30-day trials.

Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust - Stack Overflow
Developers trust tools they master through muscle memory, but AI coding agents erode that trust with unpredictable outputs, shifting bottlenecks to review and demanding new processes and cultural alignment.
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Unlocking the Codex harness: how we built the App Server
OpenAI introduced the Codex App Server, a bidirectional JSON-RPC protocol that exposes the full Codex agent harness for embedding in IDEs, web apps, and terminal clients.
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After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]
After two years of AI-assisted 'vibecoding', a developer explains why he's returning to writing code by hand, emphasizing responsibility and code quality.
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Why do I work?
The author reflects on his career journey, realizing that work and life are intertwined and that meaning emerges from accepting reality rather than pursuing idealized dreams.
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Pitfalls of Benchmarking on Modern Systems
Benchmarking modern systems is unreliable due to JIT optimizations, OS scheduling, hardware variability, and environmental factors, requiring careful controls or many runs to understand true performance.
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