Code Faster with JetBrains AI in PyCharm [Video]

AI Assistant

PyCharm 2024.3 comes with many improvements to JetBrains AI to help you code faster. I’m going to walk you through some of these updates in this blog post. 

You can now use JetBrains AI by typing straight into your editor in natural language without opening the AI Assistant tool window. If you use either IntelliJ IDEA or PyCharm, you might already be familiar with natural language AI prompts, but let me walk you through the process. 

If you’re typing in the gutter you can start typing your request straight into the editor, and then press Tab. Here’s an example of one such request:

write a script to capture a date input from a user and print it out prefixed by a message stating that their birthday is on that date.

You can then iterate on the initial input by clicking on the purple block in the gutter or by pressing ⌘ or Ctrl+ and pressing Enter:

add ...