I love JetBrains and hate vscode, but Cursor was such a huge productivity boost that I ended up switching. Unfortunately none of the JetBrains plugins (Junie, the older AI Assistant, Windsurf/codeium, etc) come close yet :(
JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
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Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#12I used to be a fan of jb products since they used to give it out for free in college, and continued using it into my professional career (I loved the refactoring tools!). However, lately they have been adding too much junk to their IDEs.
Have switched to my very old workflow of using nvim and customizing it with NvChad.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#13Junie is a much better agent than the AI Assistant and uses the same AI subscription plan, but Augment blows the doors off both of them.
I never managed to get anything out of Junie. Each of my queries end up with an internal process stuck on a loop eating 100% CPU until I kill it. Back to Windsurf for now which is disappointing because I much prefer PyCharm for everything else.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#14Deleted comment cited by the author: “ I previously submitted a review critiquing this plugin, but it was removed by JetBrains moderation — an unfortunate decision that, in my view, undermines trust in open feedback. I have now tested the latest AI plugin (v243.23654.270.16). The plugin does offer limited support for third-party providers like Ollama and LM Studio (the latter being a better fit for most local LLM use…
…why can’t I edit this 9-minute old comment for formatting? @dang
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#15I love JetBrains and hate vscode, but Cursor was such a huge productivity boost that I ended up switching. Unfortunately none of the JetBrains plugins (Junie, the older AI Assistant, Windsurf/codeium, etc) come close yet :(
The subscription costs are worth it?
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#16The whole Jetbrains product suite is sliding downhill quality wise. Can we go back to the days of yore where it was just a lightning fast Java code editor and it did that extremely well?
> it was just a lightning fast Java code editor
Uh, I don't think it's ever been "lightning fast"... Great at refactoring, navigation, and boilerplate generation, yeah; fast, no.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#17The whole Jetbrains product suite is sliding downhill quality wise. Can we go back to the days of yore where it was just a lightning fast Java code editor and it did that extremely well?
> it was just a lightning fast Java code editor Uh, I don't think it's ever been "lightning fast"... Great at refactoring, navigation, and boilerplate generation, yeah; fast, no.
It was actually known as the fast option. You have to remember that this was from a time where the alternatives were Eclipse and NetBeans. Lightweight vim/emacs style "text editor" IDE's (maybe except for hardcore configuration heavy plugin collections) hadn't come around yet.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#18I love JetBrains and hate vscode, but Cursor was such a huge productivity boost that I ended up switching. Unfortunately none of the JetBrains plugins (Junie, the older AI Assistant, Windsurf/codeium, etc) come close yet :(
The subscription costs are worth it?
It’s just $20, that’s almost free compared to cost of human labor
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#19Not great. Any other company would have been put on my greedy-morons list. But i believe JetBrains is special and is allowed more mistakes than others. I also believe they should really stay calm and not get sucked into the AI hype. Worst case they will be the heroes to the people who like to program for the joy of it, in case these AI IDEs should really take over (which i highly doubt).
Their main target market are enterprise Java developers, whose intersection with "people who like to program for the joy of it" is close to zero.
Lately they've also been coddling with the VSCode crowd by aggressively pushing the new UI over loud objections of old loyal users.
Either one seems like direct opposite of the hacker user you're mentioning.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#20The correct approach, IMO, is to try to incentivize re-review after the issues have been fixed. Not delete the negative reviews. If you want to prove you're customer centric with your product and that you actually care, you can find a way to encourage them to change their vote.