So much cynicism here. Many are quick to dismiss Jetbrains and anticipate the worst. Jetbrains doesn't need me to defend them, but what exactly have they done to deserve this pessimism? Changed CEOs and mentioned AI? In my view, Jetbrains has generally been supportive of developers, making good tools at a fair price while sustaining a successful business model.
You missed their (still not completely resolved) "cannot uninstall new core AI plugin that nags you and asks for money while it ships off your code to unknown servers" fiasco a few weeks ago
I agree, mostly. I'm hugely thankful for their license of the whole product line for my OS project.
But I also recently paid for a month of AI assistant of which I could only use it for a couple of days because of a bug in the authorization process. They make a lot of UI changes, many of which are at least questionable and completely throw off my workflow, and prioritize fancy new features instead of fixing bugs that are sometimes ten years old.
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So much cynicism here. Many are quick to dismiss Jetbrains and anticipate the worst. Jetbrains doesn't need me to defend them, but what exactly have they done to deserve this pessimism? Changed CEOs and mentioned AI? In my view, Jetbrains has generally been supportive of developers, making good tools at a fair price while sustaining a successful business model.
You missed their (still not completely resolved) "cannot uninstall new core AI plugin that nags you and asks for money while it ships off your code to unknown servers" fiasco a few weeks ago
That story is pretty much completely media bullshit. You can just disable this plugin and it won’t do anything and won’t bother you at all.
I agree, mostly. I'm hugely thankful for their license of the whole product line for my OS project.
But I also recently paid for a month of AI assistant of which I could only use it for a couple of days because of a bug in the authorization process. They make a lot of UI changes, many of which are at least questionable and completely throw off my workflow, and prioritize fancy new features instead of fixing bugs that are sometimes ten years old.