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JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development

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dude250711 · 1790075881 · focus · HN ↗
I am unlikely to renew my ReSharper licence without at least a 75% discount:
- It sees very little investment ever since they introduced Rider.
- They give out VS Code one for free, yet the VS users are neglected.
- Touching code manually is outdated by agents anyway.
1. spockz · 1790076173 · focus · HN ↗
  Refactoring when you know the shortcuts and what you want to do is still significantly faster and less error prone than letting an llm do it. That is why I started semedit[0], to bring semantically editing to LLMs. I’m still working on the benchmarking harness but the first results where I get the llm to actually use the tools look promising.
  [0]: <a href="https://github.com/spockz/semantic-editor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/spockz/semantic-editor
2. anastasiak2512 · 1790086440 · focus · HN ↗
  We are sorry to make you feel like we de-prioritized ReSharper. Actually, we do not. For quite a while we were busing with working on one of the most important change in ReSharper - making it work out of VS process. This is now a default mode starting with 2026.2.1: <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/#out-of-process" rel="nofollow">https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/#out-of-process This was also accompanied with a huge work on various performance issues and freezes.
  Another big thing for ReSharper was unlocking VS users to use more agents in VS: <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/#preview-of-acp-agent-support-in-resharper-starts-with-junie" rel="nofollow">https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/whatsnew/#preview-of-acp.... Next release we plan to bring in Claude Code and OpenAI Codex via this ACP entrance. And then we will combine that with the classical ReSharper intelligence in the format of skills, hooks, etc.
  As for the free tier, in VS Code it's indeed there for non-commercial usage, but we don't see that many non-commercial users in VS. Majority of ReSharper users are organizational clients. That's why our decision on licensing. Hope that explains. But open to any feedbacks here.

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