Learn AI-Assisted Programming With JetBrains Academy and Nebius

Anastasia Khramushina

April 15, 2025

Learning to code with AI isn’t cheating – it’s the next skill every developer needs.

AI tools are changing the way we write, test, and maintain code but using them effectively isn’t always straightforward. That’s why we’ve partnered with Nebius, an AI cloud platform known for its expertise in high-performance and AI-first workloads, to bring you a brand-new course series on AI-assisted programming.

These courses are designed to help developers go beyond the hype and actually learn how to collaborate with AI tools in meaningful, productive ways. Whether you’re a developer curious about AI or a team lead looking to boost productivity, our experts can offer you practical answers to real-world challenges.

And yes, it’s completely free! But not for long.

At JetBrains Academy, we know what it takes to teach programming effectively. Meanwhile, Nebius possesses deep domain knowledge in applied AI – helping developers, data scientists, and enterprises implement AI in real-world scenarios.

Together, we’ve combined forces to design a course that:

• Tackles everyday developer pain points when using AI tools.
• Provides insight-driven guidance from professionals working with AI daily.
• Balances theory with practical, hands-on experience.

🤝 Our shared goal? To help you confidently integrate AI into your workflow and write better code, faster.

AI-assisted programming isn’t just about asking a chatbot to generate code. It’s about knowing enough to collaborate effectively with AI, improve the quality of AI-generated code, and build and deploy apps from scratch using AI-powered dev tools. This series of courses takes a use-case-first approach to address exactly that.

In it, you’ll explore topics like:

• Prompting techniques: Learn to interact with LLMs and adjust settings for better results in development and everyday tasks.
• Coding with an AI assistant: How to guide the assistant, where to trust it, and how to validate its output.
• Agents for software development: Discover how AI agents work and how you can leverage them.
• AI development tools: Explore AI tools from chatbots to in-IDE assistants and learn to pick the right ones for your tasks.
• AI in QA engineering: Explore AI tools for QA and learn to choose the right approach for your tasks

Honestly, with the caliber of experts involved and the effort that went into creating this course, I tried to convince the team to make it a paid service from the start. They didn’t budge, so we reached a compromise.

Right now, 5 out of the 10 courses are out and available for free. The next ones scheduled for release are as follows:

• Building Your Own AI Agent
• AI Agents as Your Team
• Intro to AI in DevOps
• AI and the Law
• Building an AI-Powered App from Scratch

👉 Once we add more courses to the series, it will become paid. So take your chance to start learning while it’s still free (or at least before I convince the team they’re being way too generous).

I can’t say it enough – we’re incredibly proud of the instructors behind this course series. Our star lineup includes Alexander Avdiushenko (the Head of AI/ML Programs at JetBrains), Andrey Zakonov (AI Product Lead at JetBrains), Roman Gaev (AI Product Manager at Nebius), and famous external instructors, like Daniel Knott (the Head of Software Engineering and Software Testing Content Creator), and Graham Neubig (Chief Scientist of All Hands AI, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University).

🫶 But there’s one instructor our team and all our YouTube or Instagram subscribers are especially excited about: Clara Maine. You’ll meet her in the Coding With AI Assistant module, to which she brings energy, clarity, and tons of hands-on insight.

But why not let our experts speak for themselves?

Teams at JetBrains and Nebius worked together to interview engineers, both internally and externally, to uncover the real blockers and blind spots when working with AI tools. That research shaped our course content and helped us focus on practical, high-impact solutions.

✨ This course series is built by people who live and breathe AI and software development and care deeply about helping others achieve the same level of expertise in these rapidly developing sectors.

This course is ideal for:

• Software developers looking to future-proof their skills and explore the practical side of AI.
• Junior engineers who want to start building good habits for working with AI tools.
• Team leads and managers seeking ways to safely and effectively introduce AI into their development workflows.

All you need to get started is a junior-level understanding of any programming language.

As the role of AI in software development continues to grow, the ability to use it wisely is quickly becoming a core skill. Our course series on AI-assisted programming will give you not just the what but also the how – it is grounded in realistic scenarios and taught by teams who use AI and build developer tools every day.

Happy learning!
JetBrains Academy team

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