JetBrains Swapped Its Terminal Engine, Because AI Agents Eat Too Much

JetBrains Swapped Its Terminal Engine, Because AI Agents Eat Too Much

The IDE terminal has a new engine: JediTerm, thirteen years old, steps aside for Ghostty’s core library. The reason is written on the AI agent line. I unpacked the new build and checked.

2026-10-28 · 4 min · 1547 words · Trevor Wang