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

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sunaurus 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I'm realizing I am a minority, but my IDE is becoming MORE valuable to me, not less, with LLMs.

The volume of code is only increasing. Problems that used to be solved with a few lines (or even removing lines) are now solved with changes across 10 different files.

My IDE is invaluable for me when trying to navigate this stuff. I am completely convinced that people reviewing LLM code only via PR diffs are consistently missing massive systemic issues. You *need* to review changes in context of the surrounding code.

And doing this without an IDE is just making your life harder for no reason.

	▲	bko 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So you're using the IDE for review? The main features you need are around simple things like reading files, tracking git changes, things like that? That's a small subset of the functionality you would need if you're actually authoring code. So the IDE maybe be more valuable, but the feature set you need is actually much smaller and can probably be redesigned given your narrow workflow. Is this accurate?

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voidfunc an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Agree, and I have been an Ultimate Edition license holder since like 2013.

I have opened an IDE for very very few things in the last 9 months or so. Im still renewing a license at this point mostly because I like JetBrains the company and it's not a financial burden but they are in a bad place.

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chem83 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

If their revenue-generating products are not doing so hot, I wonder what that means to projects such as Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform. Will they keep the lights on?

	▲	fidotron an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The whole "multiplatform" portability business has been one of the most conspicuous victims of the agent wave. Porting is now primarily a QA exercise, not a development one. (Development too, generally, is heading that way).

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reeredfdfdf 33 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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ipsod 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use their MCP to give agents reliable refactor/rename, find usages, etc.

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pjmlp 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

We not only are opening our IDEs, the alternative are iPaaS products like Workato, Boomi, Opal, Sitecore AI, Power Platform,... which are IDEs in their own way, the revenge of 4 GLs.