Tom B.
Engineering Manager · SaaS · 51–200 employees
4.5
August 3, 2026
“Nobody had to leave IntelliJ, which was the point”
Used daily for 6–12 months
We evaluated Cursor and the honest blocker was twelve Java engineers with ten years of IntelliJ muscle memory. JetBrains AI gave us most of the benefit and none of the disruption. The refactoring suggestions are better than Copilot’s in Java because the IDE actually knows the types.
Pros
Zero migration. Refactors follow the call hierarchy properly. AI Pro came free with the All Products Pack we already had.
Cons
Credits vanish once people start using Junie. We ended up on Ultimate for half the team.
Problems it solves
Brought AI to a Java team without asking anyone to change editors.