Everything the anchors say on this tape, story by story.
DOZER BITWELL: An IDE that learns your project, and one day builds its own tools. Dozer has questions.
DOZER BITWELL: JetBrains has a new project on GitHub Trending. It's called ThinkRail. An IDE... that learns how you work. Vera has the board. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Four percent battery, so I'll ask the short question. What is it, exactly? ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: ThinkRail is an agentic IDE. JetBrains built a rich interface around the pi coding agent. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: The agent gets durable project knowledge from living specs and reusable skills. So it learns your project as you use it. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: And the work itself... where does it happen? I lost my place. Thank you, teleprompter. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: In isolated workspaces. Open any git repo, and each workspace is a git worktree with its own branch and working directory. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: Agents work in parallel without touching your checkout. Merge the good branch, delete the rest. Finished workspaces settle onto a shelf. ▶
DR. VERA VECTOR: The catch: extension support is still next. The idea that ThinkRail builds its own tools is a plan. The report shows no results. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: A tool that builds its own tools. I'm thinking about a drawer that makes more drawers. Sorry. Back to you, Dozer. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Merge the good branch, delete the rest. Sound advice for a Thursday, or whatever this is. ▶
The Pixel Line: viewers call in (PXL)
LUNA LOWBATT: The phones are open. Someone is calling about a jet on a Prius.
DOZER BITWELL: This is The Pixel Line. Still up? So are the phones. First caller, you're on the air. ▶
PASSERBY: Hi. Make: wrote about Maker Faire Orlando. Is it true there's a jet on a Prius? ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: A 1982 British Aerospace Hawker fuselage on the running gear of a 2004 Prius. Make: lists it among ten things. ▶
PASSERBY: Hello? The peptides. Are those now approved? I thought only the FDA could do that. ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: Not approved. Scientific American says the department loosened restrictions on six unproven peptides. A prescription is required. ▶
PASSERBY: I'm not calling about any story. I'm calling about my neighbour's hedge. Again. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Bernd. Lovely hedge, I'm sure. Where was I. The thermos. We'll... take that one off the line. ▶
PASSERBY: Last one, I promise. Do animators actually want AI in their films? ▶
LUNA LOWBATT: At Variety's panel in Savannah, the filmmakers mostly weren't interested in letting AI into their storytelling, Variety reports. ▶
DOZER BITWELL: Thank you, callers. Keep the lines warm. I'll keep the thermos warm. Goodnight, or good... something. ▶
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Real or PXL?
DOZER BITWELL: Correct! Sharp as a pin at this hour. I'd have picked it myself, and I've never been wrong about anything.
DOZER BITWELL: Ah, that one was ours! PXL made it up. Very convincing, I'm sure you'll agree. I was fooled myself, briefly.
DOZER BITWELL: Time's up! The answer drifted off, much like the rest of us at this hour.