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Lately it feels like Rider has become heavier than it used to be. Indexing takes longer, startup isn’t as snappy, and sometimes it just feels sluggish even on decent hardware. Maybe it’s just me, but the difference compared to older versions is noticeable.For context I’m running AMD Ryzen 7 7840H with Radeon 780M, 32GB RAM and a 1TB SSD, so it shouldn’t really struggle. Anyone else feeling the same or is there something I’m missing?

hi, I'm considering subbing to Junie as I was in need of an agent that deeply integrates with my IDE. I've loved GitHub copilot but unfortunately one can't buy their subs right now anymore...

What was your experience with Junie?

I've heard around that it can burn through all your credits (assuming 10 a month) in just a couple of days and doesn't compare much to big ones like Claude code.

So if you have a subscription how much do you get out of these 10 credits ?

That was surprising to hear, wouldn't having actual indexing and referencing capabilities using the ide functionality make it consume way less? since it know exactly what parts of the code are relevant beforehand thanks to the IDE indexing and contextual awareness that all other tools don't have?

On Jetbrains Rider 2026.1.0.1. I read that the 2026.1 release was to have worktree support. However, it doesn't seem to work, at least not the way I use worktrees.

I have a project that has a .worktree folder with different worktrees in it. If I open one of the worktrees Rider doesn't indicate that there's any git details. It's also not easy to tell what worktree (or file system location) I'm currently in while working in the IDE.

Is there some glaring thing I'm doing wrong? If not, is there better worktree support in the works?

This is just my opinion for anyone looking into alternatives or to know the current state of the jetbrains ai assistant.

To be honest I was part of the people that didn't saw the use on the ai assistant on launch, at that time copilot seem to do a better job for the same price after that claude, chatgpt and a ton of other models and providers flooded the market while we all watched ai assistant became pricy and a little behind.

Today, especially after all the nonsense it happen between yesterday with copilot not taking any more new users and anthropic making the dumb experiment to pullout claude code from the $20 plan, I believe that ai assistant is getting more and more as a reliable tool for us using their ide's. I got really used to using the claude models for planning and gpt for implementing them all on the fly without having to pay 2 subscriptions.

With today's information I'm confident to say that it wasn't that jetbrains was a pricy tool, it just presented us the real cost from the beginning and now in a time where quotas from almost every single provider just get nerf overnight, the way i burn my credits in here is just constant.

I pay for the $10 plan, which almost every month I must buy 10 additional credits to complete my work, however, I have found kind of nice to only having to pay those $10 for when work is quiet.

As for the integration with Junie, yes other harnesses are better than it there is no doubt of that but I got say that it gets the job done and you don't have to make a ton of configurations to make it to have access to a complete integration with the ide which saves a lot of headaches on large projects.

As for how it performs, you have access to the main models on the market so whatever performance you expect from claude , gpt or even gemini on their own platform it's the same that you get in here, but keep in mind that the difference is that all mayor providers subsidy their prices on their platforms, and all is pointing out they are going to stop that soon, so just keep an eye on how much you consume of your credits by using claude opus which tends to be the most expensive one.

In the end if you are not doing nothing crazy, like I believe that 90% of us are not, and you just need a tool to help you complete your work and be done with the day ai assistant is a very competitive option right now. The tool is predictible on how it consumes your quota, the pricing seems to be according to the real price and you can always add more credits as you go, and Junie even though is not perfect it get's the job done well enough once you learn how to avoid it's quirks.

Device OS: MacOS 26.4.1
Android Studio Version: Panda 4 | 2025.3.4

Issue
I can't click any UI of Android Studio. Even in the about dialog, wizard and Settings . click doesn't work. Navigating through keyboard works, such as tab and find file. Click works on other applications aside from Android Studio.

I already did a clean install of Android Studio, but the issue still persist.

Does anyone encounter similar issue? If yes, how did you solve it? Thanks in advance!

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I went into San Francisco this past weekend to join a 2 day hackathon hosted by JetBrains and Codex focused on hacking the IDE. Here's my field notes as an interested interloper (my team just launched an agentic coder for IntelliJ)

Excellent Execution

First of all, JetBrains had great taste to host the event at Shack 15 in the Ferry Building overlooking the SF Bay. I can't think of a coworking venue with more beautiful views. The quality of the prep was top notch: plenty of tea, coffee, and Red Bulls. 3 square meals per day (good catering). No uncomfortable crowding. No internet or power issues. No bad hackathon smells. Even in the highly sponsored AI bull environment, this was a top decile hackathon in terms of execution.

More importantly, the Jetbrains team showed out. They flew in teammates from Amsterdam HQ, from Eastern Europe, from Kansas, etc. They brought their cares, many effs were given. Shout out to RK, the very passionate dev ops rep, who I heard was hanging around till midnight just in case people had questions. Insane. 100% on the mark.

No Sharpshooters?
Curiously, I didn't meet so many long term IntelliJ users at the hackathon. Given how opinionated engineers are generally, given how strongly my teammates insist on using and supporting IntelliJ, given how many people I've met who learned to code on PyCharm or WebStorm (hi r/theprimeagen 👋) I was kind of surprised that the most passionate IntelliJ devs didn't turn up. In fact, I didn't find a single active IntelliJ user (I'm not counting the JetBrains team or judges). Most participants had used IntelliJ at some point in the past, usually where they worked or interned, 1 or 2 or 3 years ago.

The most popular "IDEs" outside of the hackathon: Claude Code, VSCode, Cursor, with a strong skew toward Claude Code CLI.

I chalked this up to my limited sample size and the hackathon demographic (if you're an Airbnb engineer making $250k using RubyMine, you probably go hiking on the weekend?). But I am interested to hear some community reflection about IntelliJ use/adoption these days.

The Best There Was
I was most impressed by the hackathon participation given the niche focus on the IDE. I'd estimate 200 hackers showed up and 40 teams submitted on essentially a 24 hour turnaround. At least one guy had specially flown in. Given there were no celebrity tech judges, given there wasn't a hiring mandate attached to winning, the focus and seriousness of purpose seemed strong.

Here are the winners and submissions.
https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/jetbrains-x-openai-hack/hackathon/gallery

I was only able to watch the first half of the finalist presentations, but what I saw was thoughtful and relevant (eg Latent Signal's token spend visualizations https://github.com/latentsignal-org/periscope )

What I missed sounds absurdly intriguing (eg Thinking's controller that uses Gemma E2B to match Codex 5.4 (Low)’s 80% solve rate while using roughly 140x fewer tokens and running about 4x faster https://github.com/amangalampalli/hyperreasoning )

Quick context: if you have two GitHub accounts on one machine (personal + work, or multiple clients), the OS keychain stores one set of credentials per host. github.com is one host. You're going to push as the wrong account eventually.

The solutions you'll find online are all annoying in different ways. SSH keys work but require rewriting every remote URL. Embedding the token in the remote URL exposes it in git remote -v. Git Credential Manager is global — no per-project switching. IDE built-in account switchers only patch the IDE layer, not git's layer.

The actually correct solution is git config --local url."https://user:token@github.com/".insteadOf https://github.com/ — but you have to set it manually per repo and remember to update it when you switch contexts.

I got tired of doing it manually so I built a JetBrains plugin (works in IntelliJ, Android Studio, all IntelliJ-platform IDEs) that:

• Manages multiple accounts with tokens stored in the OS keychain (never plain text)
• One click in the status bar to set the active account for a project
• Writes the insteadOf rule + user.name/user.email to each repo's local git config automatically
• Cleans up on switch/delete — no orphan rules

Publishing to JetBrains Marketplace soon. If you've been manually editing .git/config before every push, this is for you.

Get it : Jetbrains Marketplace

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Hi all. I am trying to move away from Windows with not much success so far. I have installed Kubuntu LTS and Rider. It is basically a fresh install. I also have my Nvidia driver installed so that my multi monitor setup could work. All plugins disabled.

When I start Rider or change the theme or resize any window, it slows my PC so bad that even my mouse freezes for seconds.

Anyone has any idea what went wrong?

Should I try another distro instead?

It is just a fresh install, so I don't mind switching to another distro.

Thank you for your help in advance.

I'm a 20 YOE dev relying heavily on Claude Code -- using AI for development has become a project requirement for most of my clients.

Despite being very satisfied with the model, I'm worried that I'm becoming too dependent on a company which is developing a monopolistic behavior, has high prices and is kind of lacking in transparency on the commercial side, so I'm considering trying open models (switching to another closed model provider seem like taking a different road to the same place).

I'm thinking this might also be an opportunity to give air.dev a chance. Can anyone share their experience with air.dev + open models?

So here's my delimma. The Rider IDE for editing, searching, debugging, etc is vastly better than VS Code. However, I prefer the UI in the Claude VS Code plug-in over the terminal CLI (primarily for the typography, just easier to find things). Is there anyway to bring that over to Rider? Right now I have to keep both Rider and VS Code running side by side.

I am working with a project that I have to delete and recreate multiple times.
The project uses Autotools and I need to pass specific arguments to the ./configure command. To this end I have created an external tool where I put my arguments etc.

My problem is that I can't find where those settings are saved in order to import them when I re-create the project.

Thanks in advance for any hint or tip.

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Hey,

so my client is going all in on IntelliJ & Claude, and apparently there are 3 ways to use them together, which is confusing, where I would appreciate your help:

1. Use the Claude Plugin - which basically just opens a Terminal with Claude Code and I think an IntelliJ MCP in the backgrounnd?

2. Open a Terminal, start Claude Code there and type /ide to connect to IntelliJ.

3. Use Jetbrains AI ”Plugin”/Window and connect to claude using ACP.

I’m coming from Cursor & Codex (App), so I already have a suite of mcps, skills and plugins I use in Claude. I’m using mac, in case its relevant.

I’ve been using YouTrack for about a year to manage a team, and I keep running into the same problem:

There’s no clear way to understand what’s actually going on in a sprint.

No capacity planning.
No real visibility into who’s overloaded.
No real-time progress unless you manually track everything.

We ended up compensating with spreadsheets, daily syncs, and a lot of guesswork.

Out of curiosity, how are you handling this with agile in YouTrack?

I ended up building a small extension for myself that adds:
- capacity planning (with vacations / availability)
- workload visibility per person
- basic delay forecasting

It runs fully in the browser (no external data).

Not sure if this is a common pain or just my case — curious how others deal with it.