Java: Is the Override annotation useless with modern IDEs?

Well you have to trust yourself to see those markers. There is a human element to it and humans are fallible. From personal experience I often tend to overlook those warnings and 'markers'.

On the other hand, the compiler is far more exacting and if you annotate a method with Override it will make sure that you are really overriding a superclass method.

If you @Override something which is not overridden this is obvious in an IDE. However if you remove a method or change its signature in a parent, it is not obvious all the places that used Override this method signature. Using an IDE to perform the remove/change will help but you may not get every reference if the right module/version is not checked out and used.

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