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You can add a .noai file to the root of your project to disable AI support. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.html https://www.jetbrains

You can add a .noai file to the root of your project to disable AI support. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.htm... Errr, that 404s now. I hope the functionality still works. Here's the cached version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250329143832/https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.html#restrict-ai-assistant-usage-for-project https://web.archive.org/web/20250329143832/https://www.jetbr... > Restrict usage of AI Assistant for a project Create an empty file named .noai in the root directory of the project. > When this file is present, all AI Assistant features are fully disabled for the project. Even if this project is opened in another IDE, the AI Assistant features will not be available.

mistrial9 2y ago
like phones, they will make you take the AI.. it is a collar around your neck!
- rimunroe 2y ago
  What? iPhones let you disable all the AI stuff with a single toggle.
- mistrial9 2y ago
  ... also posted today -- Microsoft Copilot can now 'see' what's on your screen in Edge
Aurornis 2y ago
The AI feature is also opt-in, so you have to take steps to enable it. The .noai file is helpful when you have specific projects that need to be excluded from AI tools.
- recursivedoubts 2y ago
  I teach and absolutely must be able to disable AI for my student projects otherwise the students learn very little and are lead down false paths constantly
  - Aurornis 2y ago
    I guarantee your students are going to learn how to delete the .noai file
    - recursivedoubts 2y ago
      Of course. As I tell them: I am a good teacher and my job is to teach you how to program computers well. It is possible to cheat and get a good grade in this class. If I catch you, I will report you to the university. But I'm not going to work hard to catch people, that's not my job: my job is to teach. You should learn. My concern isn't for students who are cheaters, there isn't much I can do about them. Rather it is for students who don't know any better and start having AI auto-completion thrown at them.
      - mcbuilder 2y ago
        How many students rely on AI, is that number really going up? My son is 14 and knows about AI (I'm a researcher in the space, so I've been mentioning advances in it for years). He seems to code with some of his peers, and it seems like normal to me (python scripts, HTML, js type stuff written the old fasioned way [written by hand or copy pasting into a notebook.exe equivalent :P]). I try to be super honest with him, and I tell him AI is incredible, but we also joke about it and I explain the incredible drawbacks of vibe coding, especially while learning. I wonder overall though how LLMs are going to effect CS education. Will students avoid using the tools, or will they be accepted? CS homework projects were always easier to cheat on vs say fine art, since of the ease one can copy and paste code, but AI tools makes trivial work of many homework exercises that would in theory be harder to implicate someone.
        recursivedoubts 2y ago
        Yes, it is going up. In my classes the problem is that AI is just there in VSCode or IntelliJ, and they start using it almost by accident. That is what I want to avoid.
      - 2y ago
HanyzPAPU 2y ago
Working link: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/disable-ai-assistant.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/disable-ai-assis...

mistrial9 2y ago

like phones, they will make you take the AI.. it is a collar around your neck!

rimunroe 2y ago
What? iPhones let you disable all the AI stuff with a single toggle.
mistrial9 2y ago
... also posted today -- Microsoft Copilot can now 'see' what's on your screen in Edge

Aurornis 2y ago

The AI feature is also opt-in, so you have to take steps to enable it. The .noai file is helpful when you have specific projects that need to be excluded from AI tools.

recursivedoubts 2y ago
I teach and absolutely must be able to disable AI for my student projects otherwise the students learn very little and are lead down false paths constantly
- Aurornis 2y ago
  I guarantee your students are going to learn how to delete the .noai file
  - recursivedoubts 2y ago
    Of course. As I tell them: I am a good teacher and my job is to teach you how to program computers well. It is possible to cheat and get a good grade in this class. If I catch you, I will report you to the university. But I'm not going to work hard to catch people, that's not my job: my job is to teach. You should learn. My concern isn't for students who are cheaters, there isn't much I can do about them. Rather it is for students who don't know any better and start having AI auto-completion thrown at them.
    - mcbuilder 2y ago
      How many students rely on AI, is that number really going up? My son is 14 and knows about AI (I'm a researcher in the space, so I've been mentioning advances in it for years). He seems to code with some of his peers, and it seems like normal to me (python scripts, HTML, js type stuff written the old fasioned way [written by hand or copy pasting into a notebook.exe equivalent :P]). I try to be super honest with him, and I tell him AI is incredible, but we also joke about it and I explain the incredible drawbacks of vibe coding, especially while learning. I wonder overall though how LLMs are going to effect CS education. Will students avoid using the tools, or will they be accepted? CS homework projects were always easier to cheat on vs say fine art, since of the ease one can copy and paste code, but AI tools makes trivial work of many homework exercises that would in theory be harder to implicate someone.
      - recursivedoubts 2y ago
        Yes, it is going up. In my classes the problem is that AI is just there in VSCode or IntelliJ, and they start using it almost by accident. That is what I want to avoid.
    - 2y ago

HanyzPAPU 2y ago

Working link: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/disable-ai-assistant.html https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/disable-ai-assis...