When you become complacent and your ego isn’t checked, you think you have the hottest thing. Hubris is hard. They had a pretty big moat that they let vscode eat away at. I don’t think they saw any of this coming and are struggling to make sense of it.

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stusmall 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've been a massive JetBrains fanboy for a bit over a decade. I finally let my subscription lapse this month. It isn't so much about AI integrations but overall competitors have caught up. The rise of LSP and DAP did a lot to shrink their competitive advantage

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dist-epoch 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They are trying now to create an agent-first IDE. I think they are too big to move on this.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/fleet/2025/12/the-future-of-fleet...

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reactordev 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>Over time, we learned that having two general-purpose IDE families created confusion and diluted our focus.

And not the dozens of others you have? Do you not consider them also separate families?

Yeah, they completely didn’t see any of this coming.

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edelhans 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They just announced the end of their fleet editor

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dist-epoch 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, and that they are pivoting it to an agent first editor.

	▲	HyprMusic 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://air.dev/ provides more info, for anyone who's intrigued.