What's wrong to me is that Jetbrains' product quality has taken a noticeable nosedive at the same exact time they started forcing their AI assistant plugin down people's throats.
The plugin can be disabled but not uninstalled, and it attempts to reinstall itself when upgrading the IDE version. Additionally, the latest IDE version has suddenly pushed visual latency while typing into the seconds and broken syntax highlighting / error checking. The layouts now reset each single time I start the IDE, seemingly to always display the AI assistant tab.
Plus, the AI assistant is freemium, while forcing itself upon the user. After a short trial, it attempts to convert the user. It has zero respect for whether the user already has Github's copilot installed. The reset layout conspicuously removes the Copilot tab.
To top it off, the assistant plugin plain sucks and is not ready to compete with Copilot.
Intentional sabotage or not, this is by far the worst feature rollout I've ever seen in their products and it concerns me deeply about the future of Jetbrains. I've had to force downgrade to an early IDE release for now.
I've noticed this too. That AI Assistant plugin keeps popping up all the time. I gave up and wanted to use the trial, but that wasn't working, then I noticed they update the thing every 2 days or so. I finally managed to do the trial for 14 days, but now apparently it expired, even though I enabled it last week. Left them feedback that I want to uninstall it, not disable it, got an email with some Jetbrains support URL for my request. Tried to login with my normal account that has the license, it's not working - I need a different account for the support hub. Clicked see as a guest, get Oauth error, as guest access is not allowed.
What a mess. The YouTrack system is quite difficult to parse anyways, there are so many related issues and so many products that I get lost. I haven't even bothered creating an issue around this stuff because it's simply easier and faster to downgrade the product at this time. As a long-time paying customer, this entire rollout has felt insulting.
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What’s wrong in this affirmation? Bits of "AI" are already everywhere, we’re just so used to them that we don’t even call them "AI".
What's wrong to me is that Jetbrains' product quality has taken a noticeable nosedive at the same exact time they started forcing their AI assistant plugin down people's throats.
The plugin can be disabled but not uninstalled, and it attempts to reinstall itself when upgrading the IDE version. Additionally, the latest IDE version has suddenly pushed visual latency while typing into the seconds and broken syntax highlighting / error checking. The layouts now reset each single time I start the IDE, seemingly to always display the AI assistant tab.
Plus, the AI assistant is freemium, while forcing itself upon the user. After a short trial, it attempts to convert the user. It has zero respect for whether the user already has Github's copilot installed. The reset layout conspicuously removes the Copilot tab.
To top it off, the assistant plugin plain sucks and is not ready to compete with Copilot.
Intentional sabotage or not, this is by far the worst feature rollout I've ever seen in their products and it concerns me deeply about the future of Jetbrains. I've had to force downgrade to an early IDE release for now.
I've noticed this too. That AI Assistant plugin keeps popping up all the time. I gave up and wanted to use the trial, but that wasn't working, then I noticed they update the thing every 2 days or so. I finally managed to do the trial for 14 days, but now apparently it expired, even though I enabled it last week. Left them feedback that I want to uninstall it, not disable it, got an email with some Jetbrains support URL for my request. Tried to login with my normal account that has the license, it's not working - I need a different account for the support hub. Clicked see as a guest, get Oauth error, as guest access is not allowed.
What a mess. The YouTrack system is quite difficult to parse anyways, there are so many related issues and so many products that I get lost. I haven't even bothered creating an issue around this stuff because it's simply easier and faster to downgrade the product at this time. As a long-time paying customer, this entire rollout has felt insulting.
The latest updates fix updates of the AI plug-in as far as I can tell.