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The software world has spent the last two years obsessed with one question: “Will AI replace developers?” Wrong question. The right question is: “How do developers stay in control while AI becomes part of the toolchain?” Welcome to The Builders Era, where the craft of software development and AI’s computational power meet on developer terms. Not as a replacement narrative. Not as a threat to our profession.

The tech world loves buzzwords. We’ve lived through the Cloud Era, the Mobile Era, the AI Era (we’re still in that one, apparently). But 2025 marks something different. Something developers have been craving for years but couldn’t quite name. Welcome to The Builders Era. Not because of some shiny new framework or yet another platform promising to 10x your productivity. The Builders Era is happening because developers are done being spectators in their own craft.

There’s a striking disconnect happening in software development right now. According to the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 84% of developers are using or planning to use AI tools in their workflows. Over half of professional developers are using AI daily. The adoption is real, it’s fast, and it’s accelerating.

GitKraken Desktop 11.5 delivers massive performance improvements where they count most, opening repos up to 5x faster, stash refreshes 100x faster, and branch/tag loading 100x faster. No workflow changes required. Just measurably faster Git operations that give you back your time and flow. Ready to see it in action? Check out the Youtube Tutorial below. We need to talk about something that’s been frustrating many of you: performance.

AI assistants like Cursor and GitHub Copilot are fun to play with. They autocomplete code, refactor functions, and occasionally argue with you about whether you really needed that semicolon. But the moment you ask them to do something grounded in your repo, say, “start work on JIRA-123”… you hit a wall. They don’t know your branching conventions. They don’t know how your team links issues.

In GitLens 17.2 we introduced Commit Composer as an early preview of a set of AI-powered tools to help you craft cleaner, more meaningful commits. With GitLens 17.4, Commit Composer has leveled up. Based on your feedback, it’s now a fully interactive drafting experience that lets you compose commits in a single click, and puts you in control of your commit history.

Our CLI team has been cooking up some awesome new AI functionality that we think you will love. The latest release includes several new commands such as changelog, commit, pr, and a command to check the remaining tokens on your subscription. They are all nested under a new top level command, gk ai.

TL;DR GitKraken’s new Commit Composer is the smartest way to turn messy commit history into clean, structured stories, no command-line gymnastics required. This AI-powered tool rewrites your commit sequence with intent and clarity, saving you time and reducing review headaches. Oh, and it makes you look like a Git legend Ready to see it in action? Check out the Youtube Tutorial below.

TL;DR Missed GitKraken AI All Access Week? Here’s what went down, why devs are still buzzing about it, and how you can still get in on powerful AI tools that level up your Git workflow.

GitLens 17.2 is here with a comprehensive set of improvements designed to enhance how you work with Git. This release introduces Commit Composer – AI-powered commit organization, refines the Home View experience based on your feedback, expands AI model support, and delivers enterprise-grade security controls for teams using AI features. Let’s explore what’s new and how these features can improve your development workflow.