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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. voidfunc · 1790078102 · focus · HN ↗

      Agree, and I have been an Ultimate Edition license holder since like 2013.

      I have opened an IDE for very very few things in the last 9 months or so. Im still renewing a license at this point mostly because I like JetBrains the company and it's not a financial burden but they are in a bad place.

      1. tetraodonpuffer · 1790085667 · focus · HN ↗

         same here, but this will probably be my last year, their AI strategy where it seems impossible to use it with local models without it "calling home" really soured things for me, if I wanted an always connected spying on me IDE I would use vs.code, I paid for jetbrains because I wanted to use all functionality (including AI, pointed to my llama.cpp) with networking blocked in little snitch save quick unblocks for the occasional license check if needed.

         1. pauleveritt · 1790088062 · focus · HN ↗

            JetBrainer here. I use OpenCode and Pi connected to local models and to stuff like hosted DeepSeek all the time. Once you have your model config set up in the agent, it works as expected.

            1. tetraodonpuffer · 1790088163 · focus · HN ↗

               thanks for the reply, last time I tried this in goland if you blocked the IDE from networking via little snitch/opensnitch, it did not seem to work or keep working, there seemed to be some sort of call home to enable the AI plugin / keep AI working. If this has changed I will retry and see.

               Note <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtrack.jetbrains.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;LLM&#x2F;issues&#x2F;LLM-17450&#x2F;Provide-an-option-for-fully-offline-mode-when-working-with-local-LLMs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtrack.jetbrains.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;LLM&#x2F;issues&#x2F;LLM-17450... is still open although <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtrack.jetbrains.com&#x2F;issue&#x2F;LLM-16479&#x2F;Be-able-to-activate-AI-Assistant-in-offline-mode-without-Internet-connection" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtrack.jetbrains.com&#x2F;issue&#x2F;LLM-16479&#x2F;Be-able-to-ac... appears to be closed as completed now

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