The 2026 Django Developers Survey (results coming soon!) found that AI is part of the weekly or daily workflow for 90% of respondents. AI can write code quickly, but Django developers still need to understand Read more…
Across the PyCharm 2026.2 release line, we shipped 263 fixes and improvements. Many improve Python code insight directly, with more precise type inference, fewer false positives, smarter completion and imports, and more reliable refactoring. Here Read more…
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…