I don't think they can compete with AI IDEs. They should maybe focus on the niche that they are good at, and completely get rid of anything ML/AI related. It's going to be a lot cheaper.

It's better to be the king of a niche.

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eunos 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> They should maybe focus on the niche that they are good aT

Ironically, back then they praised JetBrains for not following hype staying focused on IDE and Dev environment

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

like what , manually refactor code in hours, when agent can do it for you in minutes, or setting up debug/dev env when agent can also do that for you?

	▲	Applejinx an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Manually refactor code in days if need be, when you have something specific in mind and intend a particular result. 'refactor' isn't just a blender. If I wanted agentic coding I would just do that. I'm quite happy for other people to so completely entangle themselves in agentic coding that they can't get out. Please proceed. to add: I'm a paying JetBrains customer, but they could lose me if they vibecode themselves into a pile of slop. I'm not sure they're doing that, even if they're dabbling in it. I think there's still expertise there.

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rfgplk 35 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They could establish a foothold in AI accelerated development but they sadly aren't doing it, instead focusing on "developing agents" (aka openclaw/pi/codex/claude simulacrum #9998).

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Theodores an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

This would make sense for me, as a long time Jetbrains user and not desiring to use AI for anything apart from single line code completion, which the current Jetbrains tools do quite well.

I have used their support before, to be extremely impressed. This is an area that they could differentiate themselves in.