Cursor is turning Intellij into a glorified task runner

Completely agree.

I really like PyCharm, but it's so far from Cursor or Windsurf AI. I'm seriously considering moving to Cursor 

Till now everyhting was good even I wasn't impressed with copilot but cursor really chaned the game I think it's my last subscription to intellij after this I have to switch 100% to cursor. Either jetbrains need to adopt cursor or buy it or whatever but this should happen otherwise there won't be enough charm left for jetbrains.

Cursor is not perfect either. It misses all of the inteligence of Webstorm for me which is perfect for coding except the way AI prompts works it's just not even close. I love using cursor composer and their chat. It's just way better

I've been holding out hope that IntelliJ AI would become good enough, or that Codeium - which I pay for because it allows me to use their plugin with IntelliJ and Windsurf - would be good enough, but after using Cursor Pro for five days, I'm having a hard time justifying paying for IntelliJ this coming April. Cursor is so good, though as others have pointed out, IntelliJ still has a lot of value, just not sure it's enough to keep me from going all in on Cursor. I can use the money I spend on IntelliJ Ultimate on plugins for VS Code.

What's Jetbrains' thinking in this regard? Anything you can share with us?

I have the same. Currently I hold an yearly subscription of full Jetbrains suite carrying on for many years. I use Intellij, Pycharm, Goland and Webstorm. However I don't plan to renew now unless Jetbrains is able to provide some integration with Cursor.

Hello everybody,

Thank you for your feedback! Our team is actively working on improvements.

Currently, we have a new plugin called Junie, which brings Agent mode capabilities to IDE, and we're also developing new features for our AI Assistant to provide even more seamless support. See the following tickets:

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-7148

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-13398

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-15133

We are constantly refining and updating our tools to better match the expectations of our users, and your input is invaluable in helping us prioritize these improvements.

Hi Margarita,

I hope you are doing well. 

I'm a little bit confussed: are you gonna keep both plugins? If yes: why two plugins? Any idea when Junie will be available for Windows?

Have a nice day!

I think Jetbrains listened Junie is here but not for Webstorm yet. https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/

Right now for me it is talk to Cursor get the work done move to Goland and commit. Feels like Goland is just a codereview tool now. Cant we have Cursor in Jetbrains products an official plugin would be amazing.

Even Junie cannot get close to the Cursor experience guys, please! Intellij IDEs nowhere feels as smooth as Cursor experience, i cannot just get it to edit my code, it's that simple. just chatting and fully-blown huge agent doesn't really help me. give me basic chat with editing, as simple as cursor.

I'd agree with Okanbasoglu , many times i'm using Cursor for AI-dev work and then review/build/run in Intellij IDEs.

IntelliJ's AI features are inferior to Cursor, which is completely free. Yet they have the audacity to charge money for this. Once proper SSH remote development support is added to Windows, I won’t hesitate for a second to cancel the subscription I’ve been paying for all this time.

One crucial feature that is missing, that completely makes Jetbrains obselete for me is the multi inline suggestion feature. “The Cursor Tab”. Simply put when I do an edit in cursor it automatically understands what I am trying to do and suggest me changes that I may wish to do further down the file already while I am writing in the file. This gives one of the best auto-complete experience as the AI almost reads your mind and is able to predict your future moves.

People use neovim or vim plugins to have better control than mouse to move faster but what could be faster than an editor which already knows what you want to do? It asks you that, you press tab and done. Now-a-days I feel like I am being slowed down the moment I switch to PHPStorm. Even when I am forcing myself to use it, I keep switching to Cursor to make quick edits to files. Majorly only using Jetbrains product to do refactorings.

Completely agree, I'm trying to build the Cursor tab but in IntelliJ. Our plugin is called Sweep AI if you're interested.

I’ve just renewed my Ultimate subscription because the debugger is pretty much unparalleled. I agree that IntelliJ refactoring is still the best too, at least when the indexes are correct. The latest major release has 30 days free use of AI Assistant without the confusing Junio thing. I think it’s going to be really good at some point, but currently it’s way too slow and we really need it to be super fast for Cursor Tab-like behavior.

I’ve been on the Jetbrains bandwagon for like a decade I gotta check Cursor you know I’m saying, I’ve been waiting long enough. Lets go cursorrioiing

Oytun 
In the latest release of AI Assistant (2025.1), a new functionality was introduced - chat edit mode. It makes changes to multiple files automatically, according to the user's prompt.

Spsiddharthpant 
Thank you for the feedback. I created a new feature request on our issue tracker: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-16883.
Feel free to vote for it and follow for progress updates.

As a long-time IntelliJ IDEA user, I deeply appreciate its powerful features like keyboard shortcuts, refactoring tools, and debugging capabilities. However, I find myself frequently switching between IDEA and Cursor to leverage Cursor's excellent capabilities in handling repetitive tasks. I sincerely hope that JetBrains could integrate Cursor's functionality into IDEA, allowing me to enjoy the best of both worlds within a single IDE environment.

I am a long-time Goland user and have loved using the product over the years. I avoided Jetbrains' AI features due to their additional cost. However, I tried Cursor (Pro trial) about a month ago and am 100% convinced that IDEs with deeply integrated, smart, and helpful AI-assistant is the future of software development. I eagerly tried Jetbrains' newest AI (Pro and Junie) features a few weeks ago and the AI features were incredibly slow and clunky when compared to Cursor, which is lightning fast. I am currently running both Goland and Cursor Pro side-by-side; Goland still wins hugely on the debugging experience and general editor UI pleasantries (due to Cursor's use of VS Code), but Cursor is massively eating Jetbrains' lunch on the AI-assistant front.

If VS Code's debugging and editor pleasantness ever matches Jetbrains, I'll immediately stop using (and paying for) Jetbrains IDEs.

I sincerely hope that JetBrains could integrate Cursor's functionality into IDEA, allowing me to enjoy the best of both worlds within a single IDE environment.

I had that same hope until I read Cursor's documentation where it's clearly trying to steer people to go all-in on Cursor and move off of Jetbrains. Windsurf (fka Codium) had the right idea of a Jetbrains IDE plugin, but Windsurf's Jetbrains IDE plugin is simply not as fast or smooth as Cursor Pro, so I'm sticking with Cursor.

Checkout the JetBrains Junie coding agent. I'm finding it as capable as Cursor and often better at producing results on larger codebases.

I’ve been using JetBrains for years and honestly, I recommend it to everyone around me. But lately, things have changed. Let’s be real every developer knows now that if you don’t use Cursor, you just can’t keep up, and you might even lose your edge at work. Here’s the thing: I really can’t stand Cursor. I mean, is there actually an editor worse than VSCode? I doubt it. Still, the only reason I even bother with Cursor is because of the AI features, the agent integration, and all those suggestions. They do let you write code faster and stay competitive. For me, Cursor is basically just a “prompt tool” at this point, I still do all my real editing and code reviews in WebStorm.

As for JetBrains, their future is in the hands of the people making the decisions about whether it survives or not. I still believe they’re capable of building the best tools out there, but with the way Junie performs right now, I just don’t see it happening. That said, I have to admit: Junie does sometimes give smarter answers than Cursor, but it’s so slow that even when it comes up with something good, the lag totally ruins the experience. I mean, after seeing Windsurf get acquired for $2 billion, now JetBrains has to compete with OpenAI too. On top of that, as tools like Codex evolve, our whole relationship with coding could change big time. Maybe remote development will become the norm. Honestly, who knows? If I’m wrong, I’m open to hearing other takes.

But there’s something other IDEs just don’t get: the overall developer experience, the little conveniences, and those almost “god-level” debugging tools JetBrains offers. I really hope they make a move and find their place again in this new era of AI. And by the way, we shouldn’t forget about Google’s classic blunders confusing product names, launching stuff and then killing it off right away, and just generally creating chaos for users. These kinds of mistakes actually have a real impact on who wins in the end.

And one last thing I really think JetBrains should focus on Junie. Unless they’re about to blow our minds with something revolutionary, they have to make free usage more accessible. Developers will pay eventually, sure, but you can’t expect people to get comfortable with Junie if you don’t give them enough time to play with it. Only letting users have 5 free prompts? That just feels way too stingy.

I have tried Jetbrains AI Pro and Junie several times and they're both far less usable and are *very slow and clunky* when compared to Cursor Pro, which (usually) just works the first time I ask it to do something. I 100% agree that VS Code is a horrible coding editor, so I reluctantly run Cursor and Jetbrains Goland side-by-side. I am considering switching to Claude Code for AI + Jetbrains Goland for editing, which I think will be a lot more usable than switching between Cursor and Goland, although I will miss Cursor's almost magical tab auto-complete. I might try to replicate that by using Supermaven directly, which is apparently what powers Cursor's tab auto-complete.

If Jetbrains can create a lightning fast, Claude-powered tab auto-complete and deep agent integration (of which Junie is none of those things right now), like I get with Cursor Pro for $20 /month, I'll go 100% all-in on Jetbrains.

I agree as well. Like the folks above, I’ve used JetBrains for 7 years, but I’m increasingly working in Cursor. Frankly, the code-suggestion and context-analysis features in VS Code–based IDEs are awful—but JetBrains’ AI experience is also awful too.

There are many alternatives to Cursor’s AI agent—Claude Code, GitHub Copilot Agent, JetBrains Junie?, and so on. Yet when it comes to tab completion, Cursor clearly holds the edge. Its completion quality, speed, and editing support offer a user experience the others can’t touch. JetBrains AI Assistant is slower than GitHub Copilot and its suggestions quality are worse.

Is there any partnership or improvement plan in the works?