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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

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Post by sgt »

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…

Normally I'd agree but this is a project that has changed significantly over a verey short period of time. Those reviews may simply not be relevant anymore. I trust that JetBrains going forward will simply respond to the reviews, not remove them.

Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

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Post by sgt »

pacman1337 wrote: post #62
pandemic_region wrote: post #4

The 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?

Agree ever since Roman Elizarov left that company has gone downhill big time. Crashing all the time, stuff that should be rock solid because it so common. Like the other day syntax errors stopped being highlighted. I never update because every time something will be broken guaranteed.

I don't know.. there are some plugins crashing, but I haven't experienced the whole IDE crashing in a long time. I regularly use PyCharm, IntelliJ, Android Studio and WebStorm. There's simply no alternative to those, in my opinion.

Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

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Post by yladiz »

sgt wrote: post #122
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…

Normally I'd agree but this is a project that has changed significantly over a verey short period of time. Those reviews may simply not be relevant anymore. I trust that JetBrains going forward will simply respond to the reviews, not remove them.

They should have responded to them in the first place, not removed them, and state that the issue has been fixed and invite the commenter to try again. I wouldn’t trust them to not remove reviews until they start not doing it.

Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

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Post by ssousa666 »

steve-atx-7600 wrote: post #97

Confirmed - it is an expensive turd. Windsurf IntelliJ plugin is better and faster at auto complete and has useful interactive natural langue interaction based coding features.

I have been using this pairing for the past eighteen months and it has been a very productive and smooth experience. The Codeium/Windsurf JB IDE plugin is much better than their standalone vscode fork IDE

Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

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Post by sshine »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #89
bigyabai wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently some accounts can have their edit window muzzled if a moderator chooses to. I have a reduced 10 minute edit window that was applied to my account without notice or explanation, it's fully possible that you might have one too.

Huh. My other comments are editable way out.

I think mine is like 30 minutes.

Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

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Post by qiu3344 »

It's quite shocking to me how many people already told me to disable the annoying "single line" AI-completion if I ever were to try out a JetBrains IDE.

> AI services are expensive to provide, because they tend to be processor-intensive, but competition between vendors is a likely reason for JetBrains introducing a free tier earlier this month

If it's so expensive, why do they force it on everyone? Sure, a lot of folks want support for this, but enabling it by default is just annoying for their long-time users. Not to mention the costs of full AI-completion, I hope they don't get the idea of also enabling that by default.

Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

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Post by [deleted] »

pjmlp wrote: post #107
andrekandre wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There was no precedent for bundled a paid plugin nor need for it to be bundled with the IDE. Just their desperation to cash in. this is so disappointing from jetbrains... it seems recently their actions are less and less user/customer friendly...

For me that started with Kotlin. Not only are they quite open it is a means to cash in more InteliJ licenses, the community has generally an anti-Java sentiment, especially on Android, as if it doesn't depend on the ecosystem for its own existence. The language might have a great design, however for me that is off-putting and makes me rather play with other JVM languages, like Clojure. "The next thing is also fairly…

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