In the last few years, one of the leading new areas of development in JetBrains has been AI assistance. It started with simple access to an external large language model within IntelliJ IDEA—but we didn’t stop there. Today, JetBrains offers a wide range of new features and plugins that can make software developers work more quickly and productively. During this talk, we will go through the most important of them – AI Assistant, local and cloud completion, connecting to local LLMs, and more. We will discuss how these tools can boost your productivity and improve your coding experience. We will also delve into… sorry, I mean, we will talk about JetBrains Junie, AI agents in general, and the future of AI tooling. The talk will consist of animated infographics and live coding examples.

Feedback on a first book writing: how did it happen? Why did I accept? Which depression steps have I experienced? I'll talk about relationships with the editorial team, delays, steps to finalize a book from day one, with the first lines until the delivery. I won't stop here, I'll mention marketing, advertising, printing, official release and why I will never do this again.