JetBrains Air lets you run Codex, Claude, and Gemini side-by-side. Is it the ultimate dev tool or a RAM-eating nightmare? Dive into the community reactions.
Tired of arguing with just one AI while trying to fix a bug? Good news! The wizards at JetBrains just dropped a new toy called JetBrains Air, and it's basically a cage match for AI coding assistants.
JetBrains Air is built for "agent-driven development." It takes your favorite coding agents—Codex, Claude Agent, Gemini CLI, and Junie—and runs them side-by-side in one coherent workflow.
The big promise here is running tasks in isolation while giving agents full code intelligence. It's currently free for macOS, while Windows and Linux users get the classic "coming soon" treatment. This move is clearly JetBrains flexing its muscles to counter the recent wave of parallel-agent products like Axel and Superset.
Scrolling through the comments, the community is already splitting into factions:
The Hyped Loyalists: Devs who have been using IntelliJ and Android Studio since the dawn of time are thrilled. To them, having official multi-agent support directly from JetBrains feels like a personal gift.
The Rage-Quitting Bug Hunter: One user went scorched-earth because the app simply didn't work. Terminal commands got stuck in a "scheduled" loop. After getting ghosted by JetBrains support on Twitter, the user checked the official issue tracker, only to find their bug ticket had mysteriously vanished. Frustration peaked, and they publicly announced they're canceling their WebStorm and JetBrains AI Ultimate subscriptions.
The Pragmatic Architect: One dev asked the real question: "If I run Claude and Codex on the same codebase, won't they step on each other's toes?" Valid point. Junior devs override each other's files all the time, imagine what 4 AIs could do. The community is still curious about how JetBrains handles isolation—does each agent get a separate worktree, or is it a branch-per-task setup?
The concept of parallel agents is cool, but let's be real—JetBrains IDEs already eat RAM like Chrome on steroids. Stuffing 4 active AIs into the mix might just turn your MacBook into a space heater.
The disappearing bug report is definitely a bad look, hopefully just a glitch and not some launch-day damage control. At the end of the day, it's a tool worth trying. Just do yourself a favor: don't let these agents run wild on your main branch unless you enjoy living on the edge. You're still the one who has to fix the repo if they decide to hallucinate a complete rewrite.
Source: JetBrains Air on Product Hunt
