{"slug": "jetbrains-air", "name": "JetBrains Air", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 5, "warners": 1, "score": 1.587, "rising": 2.0, "first": "2026-09-22", "latest": "2026-10-12", "why": "Now we just need https://github.com/air-verse/air for Zig", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "Now we just need https://github.com/air-verse/air for Zig", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/air-verse/air", "official_url": "https://github.com/air-verse/air", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Air", "JetBrains Air", "air"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 800871216, "item_id": 50054451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054451", "by": "solatic", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Now we just need https://github.com/air-verse/air for Zig", "excerpt": "I love this design, especially as it takes advantage of the Zig build chain; I expect re-builds will be fast enough that you essentially get JS-style hot reloading in the dev cycle. Now we just need https://github.com/air-verse/air for Zig (Ziex has one built into its CLI, but that's only for Ziex)... Looking forward to seeing some benchmarks!", "context": "", "use_case": "hot reloading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Type-safe HTML templating in Zig"}, {"id": 799683280, "item_id": 49980205, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980205", "by": "cultofmetatron", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like the way air works.", "excerpt": "I really like the way air works. the big reason I dont use it is because they have refused to support elixir which is my daily driver language. I love that I can use browse the code in it and inline my comments for my prompts and send out all my requests into a single prompt", "context": "Elixir developer", "use_case": "browsing code and sending prompts to agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 796793266, "item_id": 49799579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799579", "by": "delbronski", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I gave Air a solid try, but it was full of bugs.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been a happy paying JetBrains customer for 10+ years. This year I decided not to renew. It\u2019s just not worth it anymore. I don\u2019t spend as much time as i used to in an IDE. And their AI offerings are not so great. I gave Junie a solid try, but it was always too far behind the competition. I gave Air a solid try, but it was full of bugs. 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Now we just need https://github.com/air-verse/air for Zig (Ziex has one built into its CLI, but that's only for Ziex)... Looking forward to seeing some benchmarks!", "context": "", "use_case": "hot reloading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Type-safe HTML templating in Zig"}, {"id": 799723584, "item_id": 49982724, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982724", "by": "rbehrends", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Air itself as well as the new Air plugin for the IDEs and the AI assistant support ChatGPT subscriptions", "excerpt": "Air itself as well as the new Air plugin for the IDEs and the AI assistant support ChatGPT subscriptions, though you may have to disable JetBrains as a provider so that it's not billed against that. (It's weirdly called logging ot of JetBrains, though you still remain logged in to JetBrains for all other purposes.) Anthropic is a different story, but I think it may still be possible via the Claude ACP agent (JetBrain", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding with subscriptions", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799683280, "item_id": 49980205, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980205", "by": "cultofmetatron", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really like the way air works.", "excerpt": "I really like the way air works. the big reason I dont use it is because they have refused to support elixir which is my daily driver language. I love that I can use browse the code in it and inline my comments for my prompts and send out all my requests into a single prompt", "context": "Elixir developer", "use_case": "browsing code and sending prompts to agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 799646385, "item_id": 49977899, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977899", "by": "surgical_fire", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I tried Air as well. It was alright, but I found it a bit more cumbersome to use then Pi.", "excerpt": "I used it for a bit. It is alright to get an LLM review on code I write myself, but getting extra tokens is expensive, and it was not clear if I could configure it to use one of the API keys I have from GLM, MiMo, etc. I tried Air as well. It was alright, but I found it a bit more cumbersome to use then Pi. I tried configuring Pi to be accessed though ACP, but it felt like going through a hoop to have a worse experie", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 796828656, "item_id": 49801791, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49801791", "by": "surgical_fire", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I wanted to try Air, as it seems to have interesting ideas for working collaboratively with LLMs.", "excerpt": "I wanted to try Air, as it seems to have interesting ideas for working collaboratively with LLMs. But the choice of AI providers was very limited, and I found no ways to add the ones I use (the only options for providers were Anthropic, OpenAI and Google). Any plans of opening up for more providers?", "context": "", "use_case": "working with LLMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"}, {"id": 796793266, "item_id": 49799579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799579", "by": "delbronski", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I gave Air a solid try, but it was full of bugs.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve been a happy paying JetBrains customer for 10+ years. This year I decided not to renew. It\u2019s just not worth it anymore. I don\u2019t spend as much time as i used to in an IDE. And their AI offerings are not so great. I gave Junie a solid try, but it was always too far behind the competition. I gave Air a solid try, but it was full of bugs. I wish them the best, and I hope they can find a solid product again in this n", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"}]}