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1. giancarlostoro · 1790075817 · focus · HN ↗

   Is anyone using any of JetBrains AI offerings? I feel like they are burning piles of money on areas I never hear anyone talking about using. The only thing I ever used was their AI plugin, tried Junie once, but the rest just seems like noise I dont care about.

   1. GordonS · 1790078836 · focus · HN ↗

      I use Rider and DataGrip regularly. I also use WriterCide,

      DataGrip is seriously under-rated, IMO.

      1. giancarlostoro · 1790083767 · focus · HN ↗

         I mean, I use DataGrip, but their AI specific tools is what I'm wondering about.

         1. GordonS · 1790084648 · focus · HN ↗

            Ah. I don't rate how JetBrains have gone about it. It feels like things have moved around a lot, and it seems too complicated, with too many AI "thingies" sprinkled around without much explanation. And the inline, auto-suggested change can vary from "useful, please do that", to "will you stop flashing up all this shit everywhere I look!".

            For a while I used Junie for small refactorings, and it generally does a good job, quite quickly. A couple of times I tried asking it for more complex things, and it didn't do well. I do find the UI to be a bit tricky, so it's quite possible I did something wrong or didn't add something to the context I was supposed to. Hopefully they sort out the "AI Chat" panel soon.

            But now I use Codex/ChatGPT... and what it can do is frankly incredible. And it might just be me, but I do like having my AI chat UI completely separate from my IDE.

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