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Anyone tried Junie from JetBrains? Im super happy with it. I’m not sure how it compares to other coding agents though.

by delbronski 1y ago

sgt 1y ago
What's Junie? I am currently trialing the AI assistant in IntelliJ but I didn't see that name anywhere.
- spand 1y ago
  Its their take on a coding agent that just came out of early access.
- avinassh 1y ago
  this one - https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/ https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/
  - sgt 1y ago
    It behaves weirdly. I opened a Python file in PyCharm and asked Junie: "Tell me about this file". It then proceeds to do about 15 LLM calls, then ends up with a "git diff" and then "Done" (the implementation is error-free). What's the value add here?
    - Due_Winter_5330 1y ago
      You need to use Ask mode rather than Code mode in Junie, there is a toggle
BozeWolf 1y ago
I tried it, it did some magical stuff, like completely rewriting my go test suite from matrix based tests to individual tests. Took a few minutes. Code was mostly correct. Also had a few misses. But in general it is ok. Still prefer ai assistant, because i can then direct the result into a certain direction. It also feels faster, it probably is not because of the manual stuff involved.
SerCe 1y ago
I use it pretty much daily and am pretty happy with it, especially its ability to do very targeted edits rather than leaving random changes everywhere. I believe it’ll get much better as LLMs start editing code by invoking refactoring tools (rename, change signature, etc.) rather than rewriting the code line by line, as this will let them perform large-scale changes reliably in a way that's similar to how software engineers do them now using IDE tools
raincole 1y ago
I'm not sure why they don't support Rider. Surely C# is a very commonly used language and AI should handle it well?
- sensanaty 1y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152 Evidently not
rgbrenner 1y ago
my biggest complaint with it is the speed. One of the slowest agents (if not the slowest) I've tried. It's also missing quite a few features still (like checkpoints, stopping the agent mid-task to redirect, etc). But the core feature set is mostly there.
aerhardt 1y ago
I've been running a few experiments, the longest one has been creating a simulation app in Qt and Python. It has showed promise, enough to quell my FOMO about other IDEs, since I am extremely happy with the Jetbrains suite otherwise.

Anyone tried Junie from JetBrains? Im super happy with it. I’m not sure how it compares to other coding agents though.

sgt 1y ago

What's Junie? I am currently trialing the AI assistant in IntelliJ but I didn't see that name anywhere.

spand 1y ago
Its their take on a coding agent that just came out of early access.
avinassh 1y ago
this one - https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/ https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/
- sgt 1y ago
  It behaves weirdly. I opened a Python file in PyCharm and asked Junie: "Tell me about this file". It then proceeds to do about 15 LLM calls, then ends up with a "git diff" and then "Done" (the implementation is error-free). What's the value add here?
  - Due_Winter_5330 1y ago
    You need to use Ask mode rather than Code mode in Junie, there is a toggle

BozeWolf 1y ago

I tried it, it did some magical stuff, like completely rewriting my go test suite from matrix based tests to individual tests. Took a few minutes. Code was mostly correct. Also had a few misses. But in general it is ok. Still prefer ai assistant, because i can then direct the result into a certain direction. It also feels faster, it probably is not because of the manual stuff involved.

SerCe 1y ago

I use it pretty much daily and am pretty happy with it, especially its ability to do very targeted edits rather than leaving random changes everywhere. I believe it’ll get much better as LLMs start editing code by invoking refactoring tools (rename, change signature, etc.) rather than rewriting the code line by line, as this will let them perform large-scale changes reliably in a way that's similar to how software engineers do them now using IDE tools

raincole 1y ago

I'm not sure why they don't support Rider. Surely C# is a very commonly used language and AI should handle it well?

sensanaty 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44050152 Evidently not

rgbrenner 1y ago

my biggest complaint with it is the speed. One of the slowest agents (if not the slowest) I've tried. It's also missing quite a few features still (like checkpoints, stopping the agent mid-task to redirect, etc). But the core feature set is mostly there.

aerhardt 1y ago

I've been running a few experiments, the longest one has been creating a simulation app in Qt and Python. It has showed promise, enough to quell my FOMO about other IDEs, since I am extremely happy with the Jetbrains suite otherwise.