Same thing. I've been using JetBrains IDEs for 25 years, and by now the keyboard shortcuts are hardwired into my fingers.
They fumbled the initial rollout with the way they gate-kept the agents behind their own subscription. I used Claude through its API pricing for a while, and the UI experience with the sidebar chat was so much better than the Claude CLI.
I could see the thought stream, click on artifacts, view diffs, etc. But it burned through tokens way too quickly, so I downgraded to the CLI agent.
At least I can use IDEA's inspections through the MCP server. It enables the agent to use the IDEA's index for navigation (finding usages, locating symbols, etc.)
I'm using Serena-MCP with the IDEA plugin. It opens up more features than the standard IDEA MCP.
Now, you can use a standard Codex (and maybe Claude) subscription inside of a sidebar, and get a lot of the features you mentioned. It's nice, if you're trying to be more involved with the code, but not as nice for multi-agent stuff.
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Same thing. I've been using JetBrains IDEs for 25 years, and by now the keyboard shortcuts are hardwired into my fingers.
They fumbled the initial rollout with the way they gate-kept the agents behind their own subscription. I used Claude through its API pricing for a while, and the UI experience with the sidebar chat was so much better than the Claude CLI.
I could see the thought stream, click on artifacts, view diffs, etc. But it burned through tokens way too quickly, so I downgraded to the CLI agent.
At least I can use IDEA's inspections through the MCP server. It enables the agent to use the IDEA's index for navigation (finding usages, locating symbols, etc.)
I'm using Serena-MCP with the IDEA plugin. It opens up more features than the standard IDEA MCP.
Now, you can use a standard Codex (and maybe Claude) subscription inside of a sidebar, and get a lot of the features you mentioned. It's nice, if you're trying to be more involved with the code, but not as nice for multi-agent stuff.
same, but I upgraded from the in-IDE AI to claude code :)