After a recent IntelliJ update, I keep seeing an annoying AI suggestion option at the top of my quick fix menu. This is really bothering me since I don’t have the JetBrains AI Pro subscription anyway. I’m running IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 2024.3 on macOS and want to completely remove this AI option from appearing.
I already tried a couple of things but nothing worked:
Turned off the AI assistant for my current project
Disabled AI Assistant in the editor intentions settings
The AI suggestion still shows up every time I use Alt+Enter or click the lightbulb icon. Does anyone know how to get rid of this completely?
Same frustration here after upgrading to 2024.3. You need to check a few different spots to kill these AI suggestions. Go to File > Settings > Tools > AI Assistant and uncheck everything. Then hit Editor > Intentions and disable anything with “AI” or “Assistant” in the name. Also check Editor > Code Completion - there might be more AI stuff hiding there. Restart IntelliJ after making these changes and the suggestions should disappear from your quick fix menu. Pretty annoying that JetBrains scattered these settings all over the place.
Had this exact issue last week and found the solution buried in the plugin settings. The AI suggestions are controlled by the JetBrains AI Assistant plugin, not the settings menus. Go to File > Settings > Plugins and search for “AI Assistant” - disable the whole plugin there. This kills all AI-related options in your IDE, including those popup suggestions in the quick fix menu. You’ll probably want to disable Full Line Code Completion too if it’s running, since that triggers similar behavior. Restart IntelliJ after disabling these plugins and the AI suggestions disappear completely - the functionality gets removed instead of just hidden.
Just dealt with this last month when we rolled out the new IntelliJ version at work. The plugin approach works but there’s a cleaner way.
Go to Settings > Editor > Inlay Hints and scroll down to find the AI suggestion entries. Turn those off. Then check Settings > Editor > General > Smart Keys - there’s usually an AI completion toggle buried in there too.
The thing that got me was the context menu customization. Right click on the quick fix popup itself when it appears, look for “Configure” or “Customize” options. You can actually remove specific items from that menu including the AI suggestions.
I found this approach better than nuking the entire plugin since some teams might want other AI features later but just want the popup suggestions gone.
Ugh, same here! Took me forever to figure this out. There’s another setting hiding somewhere - go to Preferences > Editor > General > Code Completion and look for “ml-powered” or “machine learning” suggestions. Uncheck those and it’ll stop showing up in your lightbulb menu.