JetBrains Junie GA Review 2026: Debugger Control, Plan Mode, and Async Tasks
On June 17, 2026, JetBrains moved Junie out of beta and shipped three additions that change the calculus for anyone deciding between Junie, Cursor, and Claude Code: agentic debugging with native IDE breakpoint control, a standalone CLI for CI/CD pipelines, and bring-your-own-model keys. I’ve been running the GA release for three weeks across IntelliJ IDEA and PyCharm, and the agentic debugging feature is the one that makes Junie genuinely different from every other AI coding agent on the market right now. ...