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Weekend RoundUp: JetBrains is offering free All Products Pack licenses

Free tools for your code... but what’s the catch?

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Divine Odazie
October 03, 2025

Hey there,

Happy Friday🥳!

Before you wrap the week, here’s a quick drop of things worth checking out.

📰Top Picks:

Pulumi Launches Neo, an AI Platform Engineer for Multi-Cloud
Pulumi’s new AI agent, Neo, aims to help platform teams keep up as AI speeds up developers. It handles provisioning, management, and governance across clouds, with early users reporting big cuts in setup time. Read more.

JetBrains Wants Your Code to Teach Its AI
JetBrains is offering free All Products Pack licenses for a year if organizations share coding data like snippets, prompts, and terminal history. The company says public code is not enough to train better AI models, but the trade-off raises questions about privacy and IP. Free tools for your code, but at what cost? Read more.

After Nine Years of Grinding, Replit Finally Hits Its Stride
Replit went from years of stalled growth and layoffs to $150 million in revenue and a $3 billion valuation thanks to its AI coding agent. The big question now: can it stay ahead of rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic? Read more.

10 Best MCP Servers for Cloud-Native Engineers in 2025
AI is shaking up cloud-native workflows. From Kubernetes to Terraform, see which MCP servers are worth your attention this year and why teams are excited about them. Read more.

Report Says LLMs Still Can’t Replace SREs
Blurb: A ClickHouse study found that even GPT-5 struggles to pinpoint the root causes of incidents. LLMs help with logs and reports, but human engineers remain essential for tough fixes. Read more.

IBM Pulls the Plug on Its PC Mainframe Toolkit
IBM is retiring its zPDT tool, the one that lets you run a mini mainframe on your PC. Starting December 31, new sales end, and full support ends in 2026. The company wants devs to use its new cloud-hosted z/OS instead. Say goodbye to desk-side mainframe tinkering. Read more.

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Exploring MCP Servers and Agent Interactions with Gil Feig

🎧 Your Friday listen: Geil Feig, the Cofounder and CTO of Merge, delves into the concept of MCP servers and their role in enabling agent interactions.

open.spotify.com/episode/0m0n2gGMSe7yYcfeGsgD4k?si=2a85068bb30b40cb

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Have a restful weekend!

Divine Odazie
Founder of EverythingDevOps