I can't wait for IntelliJ to get where Cursor appears to be. Being able to combine a great IDE with project-level AI coding will be a huge leap forward.
I'm going to feel personally offended if Jetbrains drops the ball on this.
Seriously, this here right now is the precise moment in time where people will either look back at wondering how such a clear leader managed to sink into insignificance, or not.
I love IntelliJ more than my own kids, but if they don't add "the AI does not just talk about what code to create, it actually creates it, across multiple files and folders", then I'm out.
Just yesterday I made Cursor rewrite the whole ui layer of my app from light-mode-only to light-and-dark-mode-with-switcher in one single sweep, in less than 5 minutes (it would have taken me hours, if not days to do it manually), and this is just not feasible if you have to manually copy-and-paste whatever Jetbrains AI spits out.
My experience mirrors this exactly. I loved WebStorm, but I can't use it anymore because Cursor is just a massive productivity booster for things like what you're describing.
Claude 3.5 + Cursor has fundamentally improved my productivity. It's worth the 20 dollars a month.
I've written thousands of lines of Vitest tests with it, and they have come out near perfect. It would have taken me days to write those tests by hand, but now I can just generate them and review each to make sure it works.
Intellij will have it's lunch eaten if it doesn't pursue the Cursor/Windsurf editing modality.
I keep them both open on the same project, as there are some things IntelliJ does superbly.
I evaluated Jetbrains AI and Copilot with VSCode, but they just didn't impress me. I tried Cursor, and subscribed a couple of days into the trial. The workflow is just right.
