Comment by shmatt | Hacker News Reader

Comment by shmatt | Hacker News Reader

Junie has been amazing for me, completely replaced my payments for Claude Code and Cursor. And it was free (until today). It's the least aggressive agent i've used, no complete re-writes or even close, And is able to achieve about 95% of what I ask of it

The only downside - which might be fixed in the newest release - is that it completely forgets context between messages - even in the same message window. But that feels like both cost cutting and easy to fix

My biggest issues with Claude Code and Cursor for what its worth:

Claude Code: Price, plus when it doesnt get things right, within a few messages it ALWAYS just creates a new file entry point with some demo console.logs that do nothing but show messages, and claims to have succeeded in what I asked

Cursor: Will break some functionality in my web application while fixing or creating others, about 80% of the time

Cursor results are going to depend heavily on the model; Gemini 2.5 pro exp seems the overall strongest. You’re probably defaulting to 3.7 sonnet which is completely unusable; it was good at first but I am convinced anthropic “updated” (degraded) it behind the scenes to lower their inference costs. OpenAI did the same with GPT-4o for a bit a while back before making it better again.

3.7 also seems to have converged more on the hybrid reddit user/npr listener/HR lady tone and manner of speaking that makes me want to punch a wall. Genuinely people could probably increase LLM usage just by fixing this problem and banning r*fit from the training set.

I've seen evidence that suggests this is false, and that it's more likely that cursor degraded the experience in their context window to save on costs.

The date stamped models haven't had any evidence of ever changing or degrading, to my knowledge. Aider did a test for this as well.

Is there a way to use Claude within the Jetbrains IDEs? I have a Jetbrains IDE license, and a Claude subscription, but I couldn't find an integration. To use Claude and have it integrated I need to subscribe to Jebtbrains AI instead, but then I don't have Claude in the browser anymore.

Ther is a bunch of wrapping plugins where you can provide your own API key, like proxyAI or Supermaven. Look in the plugins marketplace.

the Jetbrains AI assistant plugin lets you choose which model to use.

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