JetBrains Junie Local: An agent you own, not one you rent

LelouBil 20 points 11 comments October 17, 2026
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variety8675

Watching the downfall of Jetbrains has been very sad

jt2190

The link lands me on Junie CLI. Here’s the link to local: > Fully local: Nothing leaves the machine > Offline > Free to use: No card, no subscription, no credits. [1] https://junie.jetbrains.com/local I’ll definitely give this a try. [1] Best as I can tell, the “local” version is the same as “CLI”, and “CLI” simply means using a cloud model, which you have to pay for. It also looks like JetBrains is hosting some models in their cloud which are free to use until December.

cvadict

Can Junie design a less-readable web page?

mhitza

What a slop of a page. Anyone on HN have real experience with their agent harness? I've mostly used codex in the past (and in IDE plugins) with llama.cpp self-hosted models. Aside from packaging those things directly together (or another inference engine) does this bring something novel? Aside from a marketing angle.

simon_void

why is Junie local only available for Mac & Windows? Why not Linux?

gapo

So this is what they were burning their cash on. Quite a few people did suggest this. Interesting to see the min requirements. If they manage to bring that down further - this could be a huge turning point .

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