Turn off auto-update in intelliJ. Then IntelliJ won't auto-reevaluate the file ever time you make a change.

Thanks for replying @jlleitschuh , I will try that. 🙂 I also stumbled upon gradle.properties, where I saw a

kotlin.incremental

thing, is this useful and/or necessary? Thanks 🙂

I don't know if ``kotlin.incremental` is enabled by default. Just checked, it is: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/using-gradle.html#incremental-compilation It's not a Gradle Kotlin DSL thing. Its a Gradle Kotlin plugin thing.

Well, perfect! Thanks for getting back to me 🙂