r/Jetbrains

Don't waste your money on jetbrains ai, it's continuously broken

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u/prepper_pl — 3 days ago
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Main folder keeps disappearing.

I don't know why this glitch keeps on happening. I used IntelliJ for Java an year back now I am starting to learn kotlin but whever I run the main.kt file or even if i don't run it the main folder that is HelloWorld23, keeps disappearing and coming back closing all tabs. This is really frustating tried everything please help.

u/cyber-warfare — 2 days ago

I made a rubber duck that floats in my IDE and physically panics when my build fails

Classic rubber duck debugging, only now the duck is real and judges me first.

It floats in the corner of your editor, calmly breathing as long as everything is fine, and panics as soon as the build fails. You can message it to "explain your error or idea," and it simply nods without judgment, nodding its head in agreement with any idea. It doesn't talk, and doesn't fix anything. That's the whole point.

It's called Rubber Duck Buddy, and it's free. The link in the comments to this post didn't get caught by the spam filter.

I created it simply because I wanted to. I have no regrets.

u/DegreeRound6527 — 3 days ago

Claude Code Sub

Hi! i use web Storm and will like to pair programming with claude.
I already have a Claude Code sub, can i use it on the AI Chat of the IDE or its only for api calls?

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u/Alternative_Bowler12 — 4 days ago
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JetBrains Air is finally available on Windows!

Windows support has been one of the most requested things since the first Air release. Almost every feature news got a “Windows when?” reply.

We could have shipped it a bit earlier through Toolbox, but decided to wait until it was more stable and had autoupdates in place.

First impressions?

u/JetBrains_official — 6 days ago
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Meet KetraTerm: a modern, high-performance terminal available as a JetBrains IDE plugin

Modern TUIs, agentic coding tools, AI CLIs, interactive dashboards, and other advanced terminal applications increasingly depend on precise Unicode layout, modern keyboard protocols, mouse tracking, TrueColor, alternate screen buffers, shell integration, and fast incremental rendering.

The current default terminal in JetBrains IDEs still has rendering and compatibility issues with some modern TUI applications and terminal workflows.

I wanted to see whether a new terminal engine, designed from the beginning for modern workloads and built entirely on the JVM, could provide a better experience without sacrificing performance.

So I built KetraTerm from scratch in Kotlin.

A JVM terminal does not have to be slow

Performance was one of the main design requirements from the beginning.

KetraTerm uses compact primitive-backed storage instead of allocating a separate object for every terminal cell. Its parser and terminal mutation paths are designed for a low allocation profile, reducing garbage-collection pressure during heavy output and rapid full-screen updates.

The renderer tracks dirty regions and redraws only the rows and cells that actually changed instead of continuously repainting the complete terminal.

Terminal processing, frame publication, and UI painting are also decoupled. This allows application output to continue being processed while the UI renders stable frames.

The result is an engine designed for demanding terminal workloads such as:

  • modern TUIs;
  • agentic development tools and AI CLIs;
  • continuously updating dashboards;
  • large builds;
  • verbose logs;
  • applications that redraw many times per second.

Modern terminal compatibility

KetraTerm supports:

  • Unicode 17.0;
  • grapheme clusters and combining characters;
  • wide and zero-width characters;
  • complex emoji sequences and fallback fonts;
  • terminal-aware character width handling;
  • gap-free box-drawing and block rendering;
  • 24-bit TrueColor;
  • modern underline styles and independent underline colors;
  • alternate screen buffers;
  • modern mouse tracking and high-resolution mouse coordinates;
  • bracketed paste;
  • Kitty keyboard protocol;
  • CSI-u and xterm modifyOtherKeys;
  • application cursor and keypad modes.

Its Unicode support is not limited to decoding UTF-8. KetraTerm handles grapheme segmentation and display width as part of the fixed-cell terminal model, helping multilingual text, emoji, combining marks, and complex TUI layouts remain correctly aligned.

Shell integration and notifications

KetraTerm supports OSC 133 and OSC 7 shell integration.

This allows it to understand command boundaries, prompts, exit statuses, and the current working directory instead of treating the entire session as an unstructured stream of text.

It also supports native desktop and in IDE notifications.

Already running inside JetBrains IDEs

The KetraTerm plugin embeds the complete KetraTerm terminal engine directly inside IntelliJ IDEA, Android Studio, PyCharm, WebStorm, CLion, and other compatible JetBrains IDEs.

The same engine also powers a standalone desktop terminal for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

KetraTerm 0.1.0 is now publicly available: desktop archives are available through GitHub Releases, and the source code is available under the Apache 2.0 license.

Development remains active. New features, compatibility improvements, performance refinements, and deeper IDE integrations will continue to be released.

If you use a modern TUI, agentic tool, shell workflow, or Unicode-heavy application that behaves incorrectly in your current IDE terminal, try the same workflow in KetraTerm.

Whether KetraTerm handles it better or still exposes a bug, please report the result. Real-world compatibility reports will help make KetraTerm better.

JetBrains plugin:
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/32589-ketraterm

Website:
https://ketraterm.github.io/KetraTerm/

GitHub and desktop downloads:
https://github.com/ketraterm/KetraTerm

u/gagik894 — 4 days ago
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Plugin to update your dependencies in Gradle and Maven

Hi there,

After creating a plugin for my personal use I thought about uploading it to the plugins repository, you perhaps already guessed from the title that it supports both gradle and maven so no more different plugins, additionally it also looks into your checkstyle versions if you use one. Here is the link.

https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/32489-dependency-scout/

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u/matey_howdy — 4 days ago

Github Copilot is now an "integrated agent" in jetbrains, what does that even mean?

https://blog.jetbrains.com/ai/2026/06/github-copilot-now-an-integrated-agent/

i don't get it, up untill now i've thought that what is listed under agents is accessed via ACP, meaning claude agent for example , is just an ACP wrapper around claude sdk, and that doing update via the ACP registry just updates those agents. or codex is just using codex directly with ACP allready built in,

u/emaayan — 5 days ago

Code Completion keeps selecting obsolete things...

It’s driving me crazy for a while now, i tried configuring Code Completion settings disabling ML sorting etc. Writing it in capital helps for this case but annoyance exists in other typos too. I'll never use or need "logger", i'd remove it completely if i could, but seems like i can't do that too. Does anyone have any solution for this :/

u/Psotniw — 6 days ago
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Mellum2 local deployments

Hey local community,

I work at JetBrains with the team that trained Mellum2 models — 12B-2.5A LLMs. Those models are trained completely from scratch, targeting fast inference: our primary goal were H100/H200s prod deployments, but local deployments are good as well. We open-sourced few checkpoints on HF earlier this month and also published full technical report on arxiv.

Our benchmarks show that we work as well as other small language models (SLMs), but provide significantly higher throughput under concurrent load (pic attached).

Various GGUFs are now available on ollama and HF as well, and we really would like to hear your feedback. What works well for you, what doesn't? What are your expectations from such small models, and do we meet those? What's your hardware setup, and is this model useful for you?

https://preview.redd.it/6j02yvpc68ah1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=c95f9fb12ec8df3533ced68cd6bcbf81bdefc9ba

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u/topshik59 — 7 days ago
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Planning to switch from Cursor to IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate

I’m considering switching from Cursor to an IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate subscription, mainly for full-stack development.

For those currently using JetBrains AI in IntelliJ IDEA:

How good is the autocomplete today?

How does it compare to Cursor in real-world usage?

Can Claude Code or Codex be used comfortably alongside IntelliJ, or are there limitations I should know about?

I’d appreciate hearing from people who have used both Cursor and IntelliJ recently.

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u/Dull-Enthusiasm9904 — 8 days ago

Memory usages of JetBrains IDEs

Now that memory is becoming a scarce resource again, what is JetBrains doing to bring down the memory usages of their IDEs?

Especially with multiple worktrees (from T3 code) it's a nightmare.

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u/tyteen4a03 — 8 days ago
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What's Changing for Kotlin Notebook

https://i.redd.it/oz4810deiaah1.gif

Kotlin Notebook is moving to a community-driven, open-source model. Starting with v2026.2 it's no longer bundled with IntelliJ IDEA (it stays available on the Marketplace), and the source is being published on GitHub under Apache 2.0 so the community can keep developing it. JetBrains will no longer officially maintain or support it. Engineers may still review and merge community PRs when possible, but day-to-day maintenance moves to the community.

What this means if you use Kotlin for data analysis: Kotlin DataFrame is unaffected and continues independently. Recent releases have made it much easier to bring notebook-style, type-safe data transformations into regular Kotlin projects with the DataFrame compiler plugin, schema-aware APIs and generated column accessors are now available directly in Gradle and Maven projects and work in ordinary .kt files. The latest release is 1.0.0-Beta5.

Setup guides:

Full announcement: https://jb.gg/0sa5lk. Happy to answer questions in the comments and if you'd like to help maintain or contribute to Kotlin Notebook, jump into the Kotlin Slack #notebooks channel.

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u/Certain-Party-6525 — 6 days ago

IDE alternatives?

I'm using PHPStorm since around 14 years now. I like it and don't have many complains about the IDE itself.

But a couple things let me think about looking for an alternative:

- Pricing: Until a couple years ago, you got an discount if you paid your yearly license every year. That is gone and they even increased the price

- Performance: It feels sometimes abit slower than usual

- Coding: AI is so good now. Since around an half year, after I wrote a good ruleset, I didn't wrote any code anymore. Claude does the hole coding part for me now. PHPStorm is still great to check diffs, search in big codebases but I'm using like 20% of the IDE now.

- AI Sub: My employer paid me the AI Pro sub in jetbrains now 2 times already. First time beginning of last year when it was completly new. And a few month alter they added a never communicated credit system which was basically gone in 2-3 days. I got it this year again and it is still ok to be able to let a different AI check a new feature but if I had to pay it, I would say it's not worth it.

My employer is paying the PHPStorm license and it's not about me saving money but still... I think I should try different IDEs. AI intregration is not important so far. I'm using Claude code and sometimes Claude Desktop if it's about frontend with screenshots which both run outside of the IDE just fine. Sometimes I start claude inside the IDE CLI but there is no a big benefit if it's running in the general terminal or PHPStorm terminal.

I have VSCode installed but it's more my basic editor for any kind of file, not my IDE.
I was also reading that Zen might be good. But maybe thats already to AI focused? Is the free version enough or is Pro much better?
What other IDEs are worth a look for MacOS (M4 Pro)?

My PHPStorm license is valid until next year. I have alot of time to test different IDEs.

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u/3xDev — 10 days ago

Alternative to Jetbrains AI assistant and Continue

Hello,

For a while I've been using the integrated Jetbrains AI assistant with both self hosted models or the Claude account provided by my company, but now it tells me that I'm running out of credit and I need to buy more. Credit? For what? I'm not using their AI servers, I'm only using my own provided models, this is insane.

So the other alternative is Continue, but it was just bought buy Elon Musk and sorry but I won't use something that is owned by a neo-nazi.

Are there other alternatives? Of course there is the Claude cli, but I find it particularly un-ergonomic. I don't use it to generate code, I just use it as a Chat Bot, and it running in a terminal makes uncomfortable for this usage.

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u/DT-Sodium — 10 days ago

Did you tried installing Rider (or any other jet brains IDE) in a immutable distro?

I'm interested on trying immutable distros but I'm concerned with how would rider would work, it's a gui app but it needs access to cli tools and sdks, there's a flatpak version but it's not official, there's rpm ostree but I'm afraid rider's constant updates will generate multiple images, there's tool box but I don't know if a gui app would work well there. If you tried before, how did you solve it?

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u/thicctak — 10 days ago

Code editing slowness making me loose my mind

I've been using Rider and WebStorm for at least 5 years and love them to death, but half a year ago I moved away from Windows to CachyOS with the Niri tiling compositor. Running JetBrains IDEs on Linux has its quirks, but I got it running mostly smooth by using native Wayland + Vulkan rendering. Navigating panels, scrolling, etc. works like a breeze, but the main pain point I have is actually writing code.

While typing there can be a significant delay between pressing a key and the character appearing on screen. Sometimes the characters show up immediately but the caret lags behind the letters being written, and sometimes it swallows letters entirely.

All in all, writing text feels really disconnected and unpleasant, to the point where I've started dreading actually writing code and instead resorting to AI agents and copy-pasting just to avoid it. I've tried disabling solution-wide analysis, turning off various code completions and suggestions, nothing seems to do the trick.

I fired up VS Code just to confirm I'm not expecting too much, and in VS Code it genuinely works as you'd expect.

Has anyone experienced similar issues? Or if anyone from the JetBrains team could help, I'd really appreciate it, it's driving me nuts and I'm on the verge of switching to VS Code permanently.

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u/Paapiiii — 11 days ago