alt Hacker NewsI've been subscribed to Jetbrains full product pack for years now, but nowadays the thing I want more than anything is either a convergence of all their IDEs via plugins or a lighter universal editor like Fleet was getting close to. Agents let me work with languages I had no business with before, but now it isn't unusual to have RustRover, Rider, Webstorm, and Intellij open at the same time. Alternatively, I'm curious as to whether their code intelligence over MCP helps coding agents. If they did, I'd still pay for good code intelligence even if it was a headless MCP server. Thought they were going that way with Air, until they killed it yet again. Air is a plugin now, but that's back to the specific IDE thing.
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Intelligence is a paid product so I cannot test it. I would say that code intelligence and proper refactoring support instead of scratching around what agents do now is the direct next step for IntelliJ.
And probably something to understand what your agents are doing and why. With which reasoning.
Otherwise also stay a damn good IDE. We still need that. My agents are floundering on our bigger codebases and only produce warts.
> but nowadays the thing I want more than anything is either a convergence of all their IDEs via plugins
I've been using Intellij IDEA lately.
I have pycharm, phpstorm, goland still installed and use them every now and then. I, however, spend a lot more time in claude code in the cli and main I'm reviewing.
I go to the specific ide when I need to debug heavily something or when I'm starting out to create a base. I don't like the structure that claude code sometimes comes up with, so I like starting it out and then it follows the pattern.