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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. unrented7977 · 1790092185 · focus · HN ↗

      I'm still really soured on JetBrains for how abysmally they handled their UI update and initial AI offerings. I was an Ultimate subscriber for over a decade and canceled last year because JetBrains decided they weren't interested in having people like me as a customer. That being a power user who values a certain level of usability and continuitiy in their tools. Fischer Price's My First IDE is not a tool I can or am willing to use professionally, and I don't see the value of a paid VSCode clone.

      Not to mention all the lies about the new UI adoption and when faced with backlash, they put the old UI into a plugin that "might" receive updates and support in the future.

      I actually did try their latest IDE a few months ago to see if their AI integration was worthwhile. There appeared to be no functional way to use a local LLM. You can set up OpenCode as a provider, but any time you click anything it resets your model to one of the free API services, with no discernable way to change the default.

      I don't have high confidence in Air. So far JetBrains has not shown they know what a good AI integration is like. Frankly I don't think they know who their customers are or what they want.

      For my part, I'm still using 2024.1 versions on my perpetual fallback license. I had Claude slap together an MCP plugin so now I have my own AI integrated IDE that actually works and functions as a usable tool. All my buttons have text labels instead of hieroglyphs and padding.

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