I really enjoy Junie’s ease of use and flexibility

The core strength of Junie is its agnostic approach to intelligence. Instead of locking you into a single proprietary model, JetBrains gives you complete control via Bring Your Own Key (BYOK). I can tap into bleeding-edge commercial models (like Claude, GPT, or Gemini) or open-weight models (like Qwen or DeepSeek). With the open-weight models, users have access to much cheaper models. Furthermore, the pricing model offers excellent ROI predictability. By pairing a standard AI Pro or AI Ultimate subscription with our team's internal BYOK endpoint rates, we significantly lowered token costs. The agentic reasoning is top-tier: its Plan Mode prevents the typical "hallucination loop" seen in other tools. Instead of writing code blindly, Junie generates a multi-step engineering checklist (.junie/plans) that I can audit, edit, and commit before it modifies a single file. The Live Prompting capability is also a plus, I can steer the agent mid-task or course-correct it in real-time without starting the session over from scratch. By passing the time-consuming boilerplate and configuration wiring off to Junie, a task that normally eats up half a day of a senior engineer's time was completed flawlessly in under 15 minutes. Beyond the IDE panel, its git and platform integrations are remarkably mature. It handles asynchronous task delegation natively via GitHub Actions. I can spin up a massive codebase migration, push it to my repository, let Junie execute the multi-file refactoring headlessly in the cloud or pipeline, and review the resulting pull request. In the desktop IDE, the visual interface blends natively with JetBrains AI Chat tool windows. However, the real star is the Junie CLI. The terminal interface functions as a highly intuitive Text User Interface (TUI). Executing a step-by-step session directly from the terminal prompt makes it feel like a cohesive extension of an advanced developer workflow. On the support side, if you do hit a roadblock during onboarding, JetBrains has provided an exceptional support ecosystem. They host a dedicated, active Discord server where users can ask for help directly and get answer from the Junie engineering team.

It is very helpful and has very rare modules which are not usually found or can be imported in other code editors. Very helpful for python starters and UI is very similar to VS code.