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I think they are completely screwing up the AI integration.

After years of JetBrains PyCharm pro I'm seriously considering switch to cursor. Before supermaven being acquired, pycharm+supermaven was feeling like having superpowers ... i really wish they will manage to somehow catch up, otherwise the path is written: crisis, being acquired by some big corp, enshitification.

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JetBrains has AI support. It's a bit janky right now, but it is definitely getting better.

They have an MCP server, but it doesn't provide easy access to their code metadata model. Things like "jump to definition" are not yet available.

This is really annoying, they just need to add a bit more polish and features, and they'll have a perfect counter to Cursor.

The polish is what they seem to have trouble with lately.

I much prefer their ides to say vscode, but their development has been a mess for a while with half-assed implementations and long standing bugs

I'm biased (work at Cognition) but I think it's worth giving the Windsurf JetBrains plugin a try. We're working harder on polish these days, so happy to hear any feedback.

augmentcode has a great plugin for pycharm (and all jetbrains products) if you don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Actually currently I'm using augment, it's good, but still subpar when compared to old supervmaven or cursor.

One thing that I'm really missing is the automatic cursor move.

Interesting, I have completely stopped using the editor at this point and do everything through the agent except reading diffs.

I have running subscriptions with both claude and codex. They are good but, at least for me, don't fully replace the coding part. Plus I tend to lose focus because of basically random response time.

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