Comment by raincole
1 day ago
It's interesting that everyone is saying "please don't shove AI down our throat!". But when a company actually takes this approach (JetBrains IDEs treat AI just as a tool at the sidebar), everyone is like "JetBrains is doomed because it's not agent-native enough."
JetBrains are shoving it down our throats though, I have to uninstall their AI plugin after every IDE update, CoPilot suddenly stopped working? Oh, it's because JetBrains has enabled their AI auto-completion feature and it's broken CoPilot.
Your logical fallacy is assuming two different groups of people are the same people, which never leads to productive conversation.
> It's interesting that everyone is saying "please don't shove AI down our throat!".
Ever thought that two vocal minorities might not overlap, or even represent opinion of a bigger group?
Yeah, I really appreciate that JB has not made an utter mess of my IDE and has not forced anything on me.
They've tried to play it both ways. Not AI enough for the AI fanboys, but want to keep a toe in there for everyone else. They'd be better placed rejecting AI entirely, and then when the bubble pops they'll be well positioned to sweep in and eat VSCode's lunch with a product that actually works.