JetBrains should focus on the artisanal engineers and the 'vibing' engineers who need to code by hand from time to time. They have a big moat already. I imagine they try to keep the user base from fleeing their platform, but I think they have already covered prompt integration. There is imho no value in yet another LLM wrapper that seems to be totally unrelated to the existing offering, at least no monetary value.

I would urge JetBrains to put all their LLM power and human brains at work to slash their IDEs backlog and deliver the GOAT of all IDEs. Building IDEs is their strength and there will always be a market for that category.

▲ armanckeser an hour ago | parent [-]

Pretty sure following this advice would kill them really fast. Only 5% of code will ever need to be hand typed if that. They have analytics that show their IDEs were used by people who deeply card about efficiency and there US nothing more efficient than managing cloud agents.

In a few years we won't even be reviewing code. We will have abstracted code into building blocks and review those abstractions only.

	▲	exceptione 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		`> Only 5% of code will ever need to be hand typed if that.` You are talking about the 'vibing' demografic. Not all of them would use JetBrains, as not all programmers did before the advent of LLMs. But for the time they do have to be in the code, JetBrains could be their best option. They are in a unique position to cover their existing offerings in a gold finish. `> Pretty sure following this advice would kill them really fast.` I don't think so. There is no money to be made in llm wrappers. Their market might have shrunk, sure, but on the other hand they should be able to bring down their expenses significantly while at the same time bringing their backlog to zero. If not, they have nothing to fear from AI and the hype will be over some day.