Dallas skyline illustration

CYC26 / Speaker

Jason Torres

Developer Advocate / JetBrains

Jason Torres, CYC26 speaker

About the speaker

Experience behind the talk

In 2026, the narrative has shifted from "browsers will kill the IDE" to "AI agents will make it obsolete." Some of the smartest builders, Aaron Francis among them, haven't opened an IDE since November (his words). So is the IDE actually dying? No. It's evolving. The IDE isn't threatened by agents; i...