It's yet another AI assistant, but this time they promise project-wide indexing and support for large codebases—which is exactly what I need!
However, after installing it, PhpStorm started to noticeably lag. After a while, it completely froze. I thought maybe the Augment Code plugin was aggressively indexing my project, causing the slowdown, but Activity Monitor didn’t show any significant CPU usage.
After a Force Quit (macOS app kill) and restarting PhpStorm, it froze again! I wanted to remove the plugin, but I couldn’t even get to the Settings > Plugins section before PhpStorm froze.
So, I deleted the plugin directly from the file system in the plugins directory (`~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains//plugins`). After that, PhpStorm launched without freezing.
But here’s the catch: IntelliJ IDEA’s settings and plugins sync system automatically downloaded the plugin again! And in the IDE settings, instead of an "Uninstall" button, there was a "Restart IDE" button (since the plugin had just been downloaded). After restarting, it froze all over again.
I found a solution online: launching PhpStorm from the terminal with the parameter
phpstorm disableNonBundledPlugins. That allowed me to uninstall the plugin successfully.