What's your favorite setup for AI-assisted #Java development? I prefer IntelliJ over VS Code as an IDE, but the AI tools available for VS Code are better than the ones available for IntelliJ in my opinion. - ThreadSky

marcushellberg.dev • 29 days ago

What's your favorite setup for AI-assisted #Java development?

I prefer IntelliJ over VS Code as an IDE, but the AI tools available for VS Code are better than the ones available for IntelliJ in my opinion.

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maritvandijk.bsky.social•29 days ago

My current favorite: https://blog.jetbrains.com/junie/2025/01/meet-junie-your-coding-agent-by-jetbrains/

asm0dey.site•28 days ago

I'm still on the waiting list, so can't confirm

marcushellberg.dev•28 days ago

I just added myself to the waitlist yesterday. I suppose I'll be waiting a good while.

asm0dey.site•28 days ago

I mean, I will probably wait until it becomes paid and then never try it

marcushellberg.dev•28 days ago

Sounds about right 😆

marcushellberg.dev•29 days ago

Looks interesting, need to see if I can try it out in the near future

seinecle.bsky.social•28 days ago

I have chatgpt and Claude opened in a browser and I copy / paste... 🤷

jspetrak.name•29 days ago

What AI does VS Code have and Idea doesn’t? I saw plugins for Jetbrains AI, TabNine and GitHub Copilot. The latest works fine. But sometimes I prefer the good old code completion from project index because it doesn’t invent non existence variables, methods and classes.

marcushellberg.dev•29 days ago

VS Code has tools like Cline, and products built on top of it like Cursor and Windsurf. Also, the GH Copilot plugin in VS Code is able to edit files, whereas the one in IntelliJ only lets you chat about them for now.

stephanjanssen.be•29 days ago

IDEA and #DevoxxGenie
Because it supports all available LLM providers and models and you can switch them during a chat conversation this is hands-down better than CoPilot or AI Assistant. Proof me wrong.
https://github.com/devoxx/DevoxxGenieIDEAPlugin

elias-nogueira.bsky.social•29 days ago

DeepSeek anytime soon? 👀
#askingforafriend

stephanjanssen.be•29 days ago

It's been there for many months, even before the frenzy!

elias-nogueira.bsky.social•29 days ago

😲💙

marcushellberg.dev•29 days ago

Does it only support chat, or can it also edit files directly?

stephanjanssen.be•29 days ago

The plugin can trigger the Git Diff view, enabling you to seamlessly apply changes directly to your file based on the chat response.
I have a POC with a fully agentic approach, but once the window context reaches its limit, the magic unfortunately stops 🫣

marcushellberg.dev•29 days ago

Looks cool!

calistrum.bsky.social•29 days ago

I am using 'aider' (terminal).

theunknowndev.bsky.social•29 days ago

I prefer IntelliJ too and I'm satisfied with the AI tools there. It's long ago when I tested AI in VS Code, so I'm not sure how it's now, but when I tried it out, the results from IntelliJ were better for me.

thomasvitale.com•29 days ago

VS Code
+ Cline (for agentic workflows)
+ Continue (for chat and autocompletion)

From a model perspective, Claude for agentic workflows, local models for chat and autocompletion (Ollama).

marcushellberg.dev•29 days ago

I've also used Cline a bit. Seems to work quite well, I just wish it worked in IntelliJ so I could have a more capable Java IDE for when I want to edit or refactor by hand

thomasvitale.com•29 days ago

They’re looking into a Cline integration for IntelliJ: https://github.com/cline/cline/discussions/1242#discussioncomment-11801771

marcushellberg.dev•29 days ago

👀 👀

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