Why JetBrains Is Sunsetting Code With Me: AI’s Disruptive Impact on Remote Collaboration

Code With Me deprecation

Code With Me is JetBrains’ built‑in remote collaboration feature for IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm and other IDEs. It lets a developer start a session, share a link, and let a teammate view, edit, and debug code without fully configuring the project.

During the pandemic the demand for real‑time pair programming peaked, but after teams returned to office or adopted other workflows the usage declined. Maintaining the feature also requires continuous engineering effort on the IntelliJ platform. JetBrains therefore announced a gradual phase‑out.

Timeline :

IDE version 2026.1 will be the last version with built‑in support.

From 2026 through Q1 2027 the functionality will be offered as an independent plugin in the JetBrains Marketplace, receiving security updates only.

In Q1 2027 the public relay infrastructure will be shut down, ending the service completely.

Shift in collaboration patterns

Historically developers answered questions by searching Baidu, Stack Overflow, or by remote pair programming. After the release of ChatGPT, monthly visits to Stack Overflow dropped by tens of millions and continued to decline, indicating that many developers now turn directly to AI for answers.

Consequently the focus of collaboration is moving from human‑to‑human interaction to human‑to‑AI interaction.

Emerging AI‑centric workflow

Developers increasingly adopt AI‑powered coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code and Codex. A typical workflow described is to start a new project or feature with “Vibe Coding” in an AI tool, then switch to a conventional IDE for detailed debugging.

The author predicts that the core development environment will evolve into a combination of IDE + AI Agent + Model . Coding agents can execute a task autonomously until the goal is reached, a budget is exhausted, or the task is manually stopped, reducing the proportion of work that requires manual intervention.

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