JetBrains Thinkrail

fellowniusmonk

This is moving in the direction towards a final interface, very good. There aren't enough digital french cleat systems. The true benefit of a French cleat isn't storage or organizing the way a fiddly pegboard and hanger approach uses, it's the ability to move all tools for a specific project onto a single rail without having to fiddle around, reducing friction for engaging and re-engaging with a project.

zahrevsky

> We built a rich interface around the pi coding agent This is exactly what I was missing

tylerritchie

yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219186

aliasxneo

I'd have to be _strongly_ convinced to leave oh-my-pi and Paseo.

VMG

It feels like the day after I got comfortable with jj everybody become obsessed with git worktrees

troupo

It's interesting to see that the README is much less CLAUDE-y than the abomination that currently runs at https://thinkrail.ai/ Also, reading through their "SPECS".... https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail/blob/d299f20d2ba014f3... or https://github.com/JetBrains/thinkrail/blob/d299f20d2ba014f3... How is this llm-vomit "specs that are ground truth" etc.?

hsuduebc2

This is a great step. JetBrains integration of AI agents inside their ides is horrendously clunky.

yoyohello13

Looks interesting, but they need to clean up the claudese in those bullet points holy crap. It's like they purposely want the "what you get" section to be as obtuse as possible.

collimarco

Running agents outside containers seems crazy to me... It should at least launch a sperate microVM or container for each agent / task.

oDot

I do not get the appeal of web-based GUIs now that we have LLMs. Migrating my screenwriting software[0] from OpenTUI to Roc thought me what were once rough edges that take a lot of time are now just a prompt away from a solution. It now uses 10x less RAM, bundle is half the size, and my initial implementation is 700-800 fps for scrolling and 200 fps for writing. Granted, a TUI is less complex than a full-blown GUI, but I built a Roc Iced platform just as easily that abstracted Iced flux away [0]: https://blisswriter.app/

rfgplk

> TypeScript followed by a myriad other (objectively) slow languages JetBrains, explain concisely why this isn't written in C/C++/Rust?

exizt88

I refuse to take a repo with an AI-generated readme seriously. If you haven't bothered to write a readme, what else have you not bothered to do? (100% AI according to Pangram btw)

dr_faustus

I’ve been using JetBrains IDEs for over a decade but rarely open them anymore because working on several worktrees concurrently is extremely frustrating and wasteful. Their AI strategy is all over the place and they always wanted to sell their opaque and overpriced tokens, which made no sense. I hope they get their act together.

Deukhoofd

Didn't JetBrains release JetBrains Air recently? This looks like it's basically the same basic premise, except implemented differently. What's their strategy here, are they just launching competing products? https://www.jetbrains.com/air/

photios

Interested in the SPEC.md format and workflow. Where can I learn more? EDIT: found it at https://thinkrail.ai/blog/thinkrail-sdd/ --- Also... why bun?! I just finished purging it from all my systems, ha! It'd be cool to have plain pnpm support.

jwpapi

NGL Jetbrains has massively helped my developer journey and be a great tool for many many years. I don’t open it that often anymore, but I see that they’re trying hard to stay relevant, which is probably not easy as probably the whole market moved against you. So I’m willing to give it a try.

thinkindie

I've been working on a similar concept, around claude code, for my own productivity https://github.com/bits4breakfast/albedo

arikrahman

I cannot express how happy I am that it uses a Pi core. Look forward to complementing herdr with this

hkchad

The problem with all the AI IDE's is you can't use them with most enterprise/teams accounts, you have to use API which can cost upto to 10x more over an enterprise plan. I really like JetBrains, used them for a LONG time, but just find myself doing 99% of my day to day with iterm and sublime now.

tiku

Jetbrains using vs code is really sad.