JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

- I go to its website and neither on the homepage nor the features tab does it bother listing what languages the IDE is even for. Is it Python? C? HTML? It's an IDE .. for what? What languages? What project types? How can they not list this basic fact?

- Oh well, click the big Download link, and it downloads an app image file. No idea what to do with this, never seen one before, have to google it.

- Mark the file as executable and run it and get a cryptic error: "The setuid sandbox is not running as root" and it errors out.

- Back to google, google for that error message. Find various Cusor bug reports and people complaining about it but they haven't bothered fixing it.

- Find a workaround, to pass in a –no-sandbox arg when running Cursor, and now I get it to launch.

- It opens up but the text is incredibly small on my (4K) monitor and the text coloring is a dark grey that's almost indistinguishable from the background color, immediately go look for settings to fix it. There's ~50 settings results for "font" or "size", I change a few of them and it seems to make no impact to the UI font and I quickly give up and just want to try the editor.

- I read online that I need a "CMake Tools" extension to open a CMake project. In cursor I open the extensions marketplace and search for "CMake" and there's zero results. I try to open a CMakeLists file anyways and it opens it as a text file and then prompts me to install a "CMake Tools" extension. Ok? Why didn't it show up in the marketplace before?

- I click the popup about the CMake Tools extension it opens the marketplace page for it, showing me the details about it. Whilst I'm reading the details for example to see who the author of the extension is, whether it's even a legit extension or not, the reviews of it, it just automatically installs it by default without me clicking the Install button that was on the page.

- After installing the extension the CMake file I opened is just in a tab but hasn't imported the CMake project, so I close it and re-open it from the File->Open menu.

- It again just opens the file as a plain text file and doesn't actually try to import the CMake project in any way, I don't see any popup or button or call to action to actually import the CMake project in any way.

- I give up and just switch back to my normal IDE

At least with code completion it's pretty obvious at this point that no one needs the overpowered top-line models, and the trajectory on local LLMs is such that I don't think it's unreasonable for them to hope to avoid the big players entirely.

They don't need to beat Claude for it to work, they just need to keep their customers satisfied.

- DataGrip sporadically stops working when returning from sleep. I have to force-kill it to continue.

- Take a relatively empty file with 10 lines. WebStorm is supposed to reformat on save. It hangs for 10+ seconds or until I cancel reformatting.

- I saw a low memory alert for the first time in months this week. My workflow hasn't changed drastically and I wasn't running anything, just editing a few files.

- Overall everything feels a little slower than it did a couple weeks ago with the older version.

I don't think it's worth filing issues in YouTrack because I've seen those go nowhere in the past.