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January 24, 2025
JetBrains, the company behind coding tools like the IntelliJ IDE for Java and Kotlin (and, indeed, the Kotlin language itself), on Thursday launched Junie, a new AI coding agent. This agent, the company says, will be able to handle routine development tasks for when you want to create new applications ' and understand the context of existing projects you may want to extend with new features. Using the well-regarded SWE-Bench Verified benchmark of 500 common developer tasks, Junie is able to solve 53.6% of them on a single run. Not too long ago, that would have been the top score, but it's worth noting that at this point, the top-performing models score more than 60%, with Weights & Biases 'Programmer O1 crosscheck5' currently leading the pack with a score of 64.6%. JetBrains itself calls Junie's score 'promising.' But even with a lower score, JetBrains' service may have an advantage because of its tight integration with the rest of the JetBrains IDE. The company notes that even as... learn more
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