Junie

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Professionally I use AI to help with the coding using Junie agent that comes with IDEs from JetBrains”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-04

• “use gemini in JetBrains Junie and have no issues with it. It's cheap, very fast and most importantly actually listens to you.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-08

• “trying Junie and Mistral to write some test for my personal project, that took literally hours!”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-27

• “Junie is usually a lot faster and to the point. Very simple tooling , it just works for this workflow.”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-22

• “Junie coding agent which includes some free tokens to cover my coding needs”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-22

• “I ask Junie (the JetBrains agent) to do a task and it wanders off in a direction I have no idea why I pay for that.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-16

• “I treat Junie as a coding buddy (think pair programming) and I don't delude myself that 20 slaves are going to create the Great American Javascript while I sleep. AI coding makes my life better.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-04-13

• “With Junie I had something up and running in 20 minutes that I understood and was ready to continue the development of”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-10

• “they're pushing Junie and it just isn't that good or compelling, when faced off against the competition”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-22

• “I use Junie to help code and think I am writing better code if not writing it faster”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-21

• “I like Junie because it is integrated with my favorite IDE and that counts for a lot”

  MIXED · integration · Hacker News · 2026-01-14

• “Junie coded me a simple webapp that pulled R-R intervals from my Polar H10 heart rate monitor in 20 minutes and it worked the first time”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-01-12

• “I really enjoy Junie, I find it working better out of the box”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2025-12-22

• “working with Junie I figured out a way to isolate object-based components and run them as real unit test with mocks”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-18

• “I tell Junie my plan and it tells me I'll have CORS trouble and "Would you consider making a browser extension?" Well I had considered that but was intimidated at the prospect, figured I'd probably have to carve out an uninterrupted weekend to study browser extensions, kick my son out of the house to go busk with his guitar instead of playing upstairs (the emotional/social bit is important) and even then have a high chance of not really getting it done and then end up taking another month to get an uninterrupted weekend. I told Junie "I've got no idea how you do that, don't you need a build system, don't you need to sign it?" and it said "No, you can just make the manifest file and a JS file and do a temporary install" so I say "make it so" and in 20 minutes I have the browser extension.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-14

• “it made a really nice patch. Also if I don't understand how to use some open source dependency I check the project out and ask Junie questions about it like "How do I do X?" or "How does setting prop Y have the effect of Z?" and frequently I get the right answer right away. Sometimes I describe a bug in my code and ask if it can figure it out and often it does, ask for a fix and often get great results”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-12-13

• “mixed result with AI tool like Github copilot and Jetbrains Junie”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2025-11-01

• “I have a Junie subscription from Jetbrains and they keep adding the newest models so I don't have to waste time reading about them from influencers.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-10-01

• “if I ask Junie to code me some tests it works harder at testing unhappy paths than I would”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-09-21

• “I've had decent success prompting Junie (JetBrains AI) a few times because of this.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-09-03

• “Junie, and Copilot all do work that I find much more acceptable.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-08-02

• “Things like Windsurf and Junie on the other hand seem to be mostly a waste of time as they go off and do stuff for 5-20 minutes and when they get back it is usually pretty screwed up an a lot of effort to understand what's wrong with it and fix it”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-07-21

• “Junie does differently it has better context on what the IDE knows or sees , from what files are open or typedefs are loaded, I could achieve some simpler tasks with lesser prompts and less tokens and cycles than with CC or even windsurf”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-07-13

• “I tried Junie but it crashed so I'm putting that on pause for now”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-07-10

• “good experiences with Junie and AI assistant at their bread and butter languages of Java and Kotlin”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2025-07-08