Open weight models are having a moment, driven by control, choice, and cost. Hybrid and local AI are now getting serious looks, so JetBrains teamed up with DeepLearning.AI on a free AI Coding Workflows: Hybrid Read more…
This PyCharm release is a big one for anyone building with AI. Your agents can now roll up their sleeves inside your Jupyter notebooks – working against a live kernel instead of firing off disconnected Read more…
AI agents are supposed to save you time. Ask one to install a dependency or run your project, though, and it often does the opposite: It installs into the wrong Python, ignores the uv or Read more…
If you’ve handed notebook work to an AI agent, you know how it tends to go: More often than not, it corrupts your .ipynb, loses your trained model the moment the run finishes, or burns Read more…
As part of ongoing maintenance, we are unbundling and deprecating low-usage plugins starting with PyCharm 2026.2. This includes support for Data Wrangler, Hugging Face, and Google Colab, among others. A more focused set of bundled Read more…
This is a guest post from Naa Ashiorkor, a data scientist and tech community builder. Building intelligent systems that can see, hear, understand language, and make decisions was previously the domain of specialized researchers with Read more…
In PyCharm 2026.2, you can build Python extensions with the new Rust plugin and debug them using debugpy, which is now the default engine. Running external utilities is now managed through a redesigned settings UI Read more…
Learn Python with a Book Designed for Beginners Hello! I’m Michael Driscoll, and I’m excited to announce the third edition of Python 101. For years, Python 101 has helped readers take their first steps into Read more…
Have you ever wanted to create a presentation in your computer’s terminal? While this is an uncommon need, a clever open source developer has provided a solution to this problem! The project is called Spiel, Read more…
I am happy to announce that my latest book, Python Typing, is now available on all platforms. You can get your copy on Gumroad or Leanpub or Amazon Python has had type hinting support since Read more…