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Why AI Agents as Your Team Should Be Your Next Learning Move

Let’s be honest: if you’re in software today, AI is already on your team—whether you’ve invited it or not. But here’s the critical truth every developer and team lead should understand: using AI tools is not the same as understanding AI agents. That’s why we created the course AI Agents as Your Team. It’s a hands-on, real-world roadmap to understanding how AI agents actually work—and how you can work with them.
It’s Time to Think Like an AI Agent Collaborator
2025 is the year software teams go into post-human mode. Every engineer will soon have a few tireless digital teammates running tests, writing patches, and signaling for help only when truly needed.
Andrew Zakonov, the course creator and AI Product Leader at JetBrains
AI agents are no longer sci-fi—they’re here. But so is the danger: when we don’t understand how they operate, we treat them like black boxes—trusting them blindly or avoiding them altogether. This course pulls back the curtain, helping you demystify AI agents and move beyond simply observing their outputs.
You’ll gain a foundational understanding of:
- How Agents Are Built: The architecture of LLM-powered agents and how they actually work under the hood.
- Maximizing Productivity: Practical strategies and “playbooks” for potentially achieving a 10x increase with today’s AI agent technology.
- Navigating Risks: The challenges that come with using AI agents and actionable ways to mitigate them, ensuring responsible adoption.
- Staying Ahead: How to navigate the fast-paced AI landscape as new models and agents continue to emerge.
Built by Builders — JetBrains and Nebius
What makes this course stand out isn’t just the curriculum. It’s who built it:
- JetBrains: The team behind IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and now Junie, a deeply context-aware coding agent built for professionals.
- Nebius: Experts in scalable, AI-first cloud infrastructure.
We’re not just creating AI products, we’re actively contributing to the industry’s growth, awareness and cutting-edge education. Our engineers understand the real stakes of working with intelligent systems—performance, trust, transparency, and productivity.
The course reflects that mindset.
You’ll see how Junie works and what makes an agent truly useful. It’s the kind of insight that changes how you write code—and how you think about your tools.
Who Should Enroll
This course isn’t just about speeding up tasks; it’s about architecting better workflows, navigating complex AI systems, and building safe, observable co-creators. This is foundational knowledge for anyone who cares about developer experience, AI literacy, or technical leadership.
Take this course if you:
- Feel AI creeping into your stack and want to stay ahead of the curve.
- Are mentoring devs who need better guidance than “just use ChatGPT.”
- Want to explore agent orchestration, prompt engineering, or agent UIs.
- Are serious about integrating tools like Junie into your production workflow.
It’s like getting extra developers to your team! If you spend time now learning how these agents plan, loop through feedback, and expose the handful of decisions that still need you, that time will pay off in every task that follows.
Andrew Zakonov, the course creator and AI Product Leader at JetBrains
Why Now
There’s no prize for being first, but there’s a cost to being last. AI Agents as Your Team is free right now, a rare opportunity to gain insights companies typically reserve for private training. If you’re even thinking about working with AI professionally, do yourself a favor and seize this chance while it’s open. We’re recommending it to our teams, and we hope you’ll join us.