JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

Post by dullcrisp » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 11:10 PM UTC

homebrewer wrote: post #19

endofreach wrote: post #7

Not 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.

Post by sadjad » Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 11:39 PM UTC

dullcrisp wrote: post #71

homebrewer wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Also people who like good IDEs. But we know that real hackers use emacs.

Post by zamalek » Thu, May 01, 2025, 12:19 AM UTC

zer0-c00l wrote: post #11

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 :(

Post by willcipriano » Thu, May 01, 2025, 12:30 AM UTC

ziddoap wrote: post #5

> a JetBrains employee said that reviews were removed because they mentioned issues that had since been solved That shouldn't be considered a valid reason to remove a review. I could maybe understand down-weighting reviews as they age and as issues are resolved, but as a potential buyer of some product/service/whatever, knowing that something was released with a bunch of issues (even if now solved) is a valuable sign…

Post by rileymichael » Thu, May 01, 2025, 12:45 AM UTC

cle wrote: post #63

buremba wrote: post #35

They have much superior product compared to VSCode in terms of pretty much everything, except AI. Not sure why it’s so hard for them to catch up with Cursor. They have everything they need but somehow they focus on just something that they don’t have much expertise, building models instead of better integration. It’s a shame seeing such good product going downhill considering AI is becoming fundamental for dev produc…

> They have much superior product compared to VSCode in terms of pretty much everything, except AI Disagree, I keep trying Jetbrains once in a while and keep walking away disappointed (used to be a hardcore user). I use VS Code bc it is seamlessly polyglot. Jetbrains wants me to launch a whole separate IDE for different use cases, which is just horrible UX for me. Why would I pay hundreds for a worse UX?