roundtable · DotNext 2026
IDE vNext: Who Will Build a Home for AI Agents?
September 25, 2026 · DotNext · 55 min
Alexander Polomodov, Dmitry Ivanov, Andrey Berezniker, and Oleg Chirukhin discuss development environments for AI agents. Anatoly Kulakov moderates the roundtable. Watch the recording and read the discussion summary; Alexander’s position prepared for the event is available as a separate longread.
Roundtable participants
Anatoly Kulakov · moderator · Monopoly
Alexander Polomodov · panelist
Dmitry Ivanov · panelist · Yandex
Andrey Berezniker · panelist · Kontur
Oleg Chirukhin · panelist · SberTech
The discussion at a glance
- 01The environment should support task framing, delegation, and verification. Platform integration adds context about dependencies, load, and service health.
- 02Panelists disagree on code’s future role while retaining human accountability. Fast navigation and precise transformations do not always benefit from conversational interaction.
- 03Supervising continuously running agents is exhausting. Interfaces should reflect what engineers need to notice and when they should intervene.
- 04Structured specifications and explicit change boundaries help collaboration. Incompatible architectural intentions still require human agreement.
- 05Companies need integration with their own infrastructure; the panel proposes no single IDE for everyone. Tool compatibility and agent access to platform capabilities remain directions to explore.