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 configurations, and framework knowledge. Both approaches have their place. The right tool depends on the project, the language, the team, and how much infrastructure the IDE can understand. Personally, I have always preferred IntelliJ. Even when it feels heavier, it helps me work in a fail-fast way: I quickly see when something is wrong, I get warnings before problems become bugs, and weak warnings often explain why the code I just wrote is not quite right yet.…