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I switched to vscode because the complexity and runtime overhead of intellij were no longer justified with Claude writing most of the code
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Helped: Switching to VSCode eliminated IntelliJ cache and indexing issues.
Got in the way: IntelliJ runtime overhead and broken caches amplified by parallel work trees.
I switched to vscode because the complexity and runtime overhead of intellij were no longer justified with Claude writing most of the code. I work on a big java code base and every two days I had to wrangle with intellij cache, clearing it or what not. …