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JetBrains Academy – June Digest
We need to have a mandatory meeting. I know, I know, but this one doesn’t ask you to turn your camera on or pretend you didn’t just wake up. It’ll just be you, your coffee, and six things worth your attention.
Unlike most meetings, this one ends with a stronger LinkedIn profile, a couple of free courses, a crash course in AI agents, and a video that might make you rethink your relationship with chatbots.
Grow your expertise
Showcase your IDE expertise on LinkedIn
Connect your JetBrains IDE to LinkedIn to showcase your coding activity directly on your profile. It’s a simple way to give employers, recruiters, and peers a more authentic view of your development journey and the work you do.
Learn how
Build an AI assistant for the chance to win a prize
Our latest JetBrains Academy Discord Challenge is here! This time, you’ll build your own local AI assistant with LLMs by completing our course on Coursera. Once you’ve finished, share screenshots of your completed project in our Discord for a chance to win prizes.
Submissions close July 15, 2026.
Join the challenge
New free Udemy course on working with real projects in IntelliJ IDEA
Ready to see what working on a real codebase feels like? In this free 90-minute course, you’ll work with existing projects in IntelliJ IDEA, tackling bugs, debugging code, working with tests, and building new features. It’s a great chance to get hands-on experience with the kind of work developers do every day.
Start the course
Learning highlights
Build a Local AI Agent With LLMs
In our new JetBrains Academy course on Coursera, you’ll learn how to create a complete local AI assistant step by step, from setting up an LLM to implementing retrieval, vector search, grounded prompts, and a web UI. If you’re comfortable with basic Python, you’re ready to get started.
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New on Hyperskill: AI Agents: Theory and Practice
AI agents are everywhere. Developers who can build them aren’t. Learn how LLM agents work, and build your own Python-based AI agents from scratch through hands-on projects, including a butler agent. If you want practical AI skills, this is where to start.
Start building AI agents
New video: What AI Does to the Minds of Novice Coders
Our new YouTube video takes an experimental look at the so-called AI-enhanced experience of learning programming and some of the less obvious drawbacks of the AI tutor concept. Clara shares scientific insights and advice on how to improve your learning process.
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