Comment by sitkack

I use free RustRover for my open source work. I have not purchased a (new) license for my commercial work, because I haven't been getting as much value as it since my flow has switched to primarily agentic.

Mainly, they're pushing Junie and it just isn't that good or compelling, when faced off against the competition.

The key thing for me is that I think they had an opportunity here to really rethink how LLMs could interact with an editor since they potentially controlled both the editor and the LLM interaction. But they just implemented another chat-based interaction model with some bells and whistles, and also were late getting it out really, and what they delivered seemed a bit meh.

I was hoping for something that worked more closely inside the editing process, inline in the code, not just completions and then an agentic log alongside.

I also don't like that I can't seem to get it to work with 3rd party LLM providers, really. It seems to allow specifying an OpenAI API compatible endpoint, but it's janky and doesn't seem to allow me to refresh and manage the list of models properly?

It just still seems half-baked.

I love Opus and I am a heavy CC user now, but I don't like that Claude Code is taking me out of my IDE, away from hands on with the code, and out of my editing process.And I don't like how it tries to take over and how weak its review flow is. I end up almost always with surprises during my review process, despite my finding the quality of its code and analysis quite good. To me there was a real chance here for a company like JetBrains to show its worth in applying AI in a more sensible way than Anthropic has.

VSCode and Zed have no appeal to me though. I've mostly gone back to emacs.

In the meantime, their IDEs themselves feel a bit stalled in terms of advancement. And they've always suffered from performance problems since I started using them over 20 ago.