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Issue #6 | April 1, 2026
TL;DR
- JetBrains Central launches an open control plane for coding agents. 90% of devs use AI at work, but only 13% use it across the full SDLC. Central is their bet on closing that gap.
- ARC-AGI-3 drops and frontier AI scores below 1%. Humans score 100%. The benchmark that keeps humbling the field just got harder.
- AWS Labs ships Agent Plugins for Claude Code and Cursor. Reusable, versioned skills that let coding agents architect, deploy, and operate on AWS. Six plugins covering serverless, Amplify, databases, and GCP-to-AWS migration.
The Big One
JetBrains Central: The Control Plane for Agent-Driven Software
JetBrains just made their move. Central is an open orchestration platform that connects any coding agent to any IDE. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, your custom agent. All of them, one control plane.
The numbers from their developer survey tell the story. 90% of devs use AI at work. 22% already use coding agents. 66% of companies plan to adopt agents within 12 months. But only 13% use AI across the full software development lifecycle.
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