The Case for IDE-Native Coding Agents

AgentBridge is one concrete experiment in keeping agentic coding close to the way many of us already work in a full IDE. Historically, developers have often split into two broad camps. Some prefer lightweight editors because they are fast, flexible, and stay out of the way. Others prefer full IDEs like IntelliJ IDEA and the rest of the JetBrains family because the IDE constantly keeps more of the project in view: types, inspections, refactorings, tests, Git state, database connections, run confi