Google Ships Gemini Code Assist 'Finish Changes' and 'Outlines' in IntelliJ and VS Code — Closing Gap on Claude Code Agentic Features

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Google launched two new Gemini Code Assist features in its IntelliJ and VS Code extensions: 'Finish Changes,' which autonomously completes partially-started code edits across a file, and 'Outlines,' which generates structural scaffolding for new files from natural language descriptions. The features ship the same week as VS Code 1.111's Autopilot mode and directly compete with Claude Code's multi-file edit capabilities. Google's IDE agent features are catching up to Anthropic and Microsoft in the agentic coding layer.