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1. throwaw12 · 1790077711 · focus · HN ↗

   I like JetBrains as a company, their pricing for individuals made a lot of sense, you buy the license and you can keep using perpetual license for that version, if you want to buy newer version, you pay slightly less than year before.

   I want them to succeed, but can't see how they can win in this agentic world, where people are barely opening their IDEs, and living in agents terminal whole day and from time to time opening a PR to get a review

   1. pauleveritt · 1790082187 · focus · HN ↗

      Hi, JetBrainer here with my two cents. You're right, there's a crop of folks barely opening their IDE, who don't really even want to look at code anymore, much less type any code.

      But there's still a group that needs to own the result, who still read code and write code. Folks who still believe in developers and development. This group might not be loud in SV, but they are big out in the world.

      I'm a Python advocate at JetBrains and our team runs into folks like this all the time.

      I've been enjoying using Air inside the IDE as a way to get the acceleration without giving up coding. I get the speed side from the agent and the trust side from the deterministic IDE.

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