For about as long as AI coding agents have existed, the JetBrains crowd has watched from the sidelines. The interesting tools shipped as VS Code forks or VS Code extensions, and IntelliJ users got a plugin that felt a step behind — useful autocomplete, a chat panel, but nothing that touched the part of the IDE that actually makes IntelliJ worth its weight: the index. JetBrains IDEs are not text editors with plugins bolted on. They are semantic models of your code, and that model is the whole point. An agent that ignores it is leaving the best tool on the table. Junie is JetBrains' answer. It is a native AI coding agent built into the IntelliJ family — IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, and the rest — and the pitch is that it does not treat your project as a folder of text files. It reads the same index the IDE uses for navigation and refactoring, runs your existing run configurations to check its own work, and executes multi-step tasks while you approve each meaningful move.…