Solid move by Altman - good signal they’re serious about capturing the Claude Code market from Anthropic.

What I don’t understand is why hasn’t anyone bought Jetbrains yet.

Atlassian? AWS? Google?

hirako2000 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Because Jetbrain strategy wasn't to burn money with free tools to eventually exit with the jackpot. They have been profitable for over a decade, simply asking users to pay a fair price for great product.

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wiseowise 2 days ago | parent [-]

Judging by all their mistakes in the last years, Russian war and AI, it’s only a matter of time until someone buys them out.

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rkomorn 2 days ago | parent [-]

With the way they're going, I'm less and less convinced there will be much left to buy, unless it's for pennies.

I've only been a JetBrains user for five years but it's felt like it's only getting worse the whole time.

	▲	mrweasel a day ago \| parent [-]
		To be fair, everything is getting worse the whole time.

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user34283 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Atlassian? Bitbucket as a platform for agentic development.. shudder

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KeplerBoy 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Most likely because Jetbrains is not for sale. Google almost certainly offered to buy at some point.

	▲	wiseowise 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Never did. I remember someone replied to my comment here that Google isn’t paying a penny to JetBrains. They’re quite happy with the relationship primarily because they don’t have to pay anything. If anything, JetBrains is the one who needs Google more than the other way around.