I cancelled my JetBrains license a few days ago after I was required to agree to new terms and conditions, they expended no effort and took zero time to explain the changes, what has changed and why, I was shown a ridiculously long legal document and asked to agree or get fucked. There was no feedback option when cancelling the subscription, they clearly don't care.
JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
51–60 of 154 posts
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#52The second a better product comes along I'm moving away from Jetbrains. Unfortunately I think we're about to get into an IDE winter since everything thinks all problems should just be solved by AI rather than doing the hard work like "good refactoring tools" and "acceptable user experience".
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#53They 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 don't need to do it themselves; there lots of AI plugins for IntelliJ and I use one by Sourcegraph.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#54Junie 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 didn't know what Augment is, so I checked it out. There's absolute no way I'm going to agree to this [0]:
> When you open a workspace with Augment enabled, your codebase will be automatically uploaded to Augment’s secure cloud.
[0] https://docs.augmentcode.com/jetbrains/setup-augment/workspa...
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#55> 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…
If they are both marketplace and seller, and if this is a policy they apply to all vendors, seems fine to me.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#56There is already a huge discussion going on about their big re-design last year, so I guess they are now feeling the burn with all the users leaving...
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#57I'm really concerned over the last couple of years that my two paid subscriptions (work/personal) go into AI BS development I do not need, instead of fixing pain points I have daily. It may continue for so long. I hope to see they defend the removal of AI assistant completely, by moving it completely off the main channel. They are not MSFT that can waste a billion here and there. Every AI feature they make is paid by…
Yeah, I cancelled my subscription when it became clear they just did not care about my custom any more. The core products had pain points just sat with open issues forever, and they just started doing nothing but trying to upsell me on stuff I didn't care about or want.
I used to be a huge evangelist for JetBrains products, I loved having a product where I felt like I could just pay and get something of quality, it's really sad seeing that devolve into the same mess of "you are the product" as virtually everything else, despite the fact they were still demanding my money.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#58I'm really concerned over the last couple of years that my two paid subscriptions (work/personal) go into AI BS development I do not need, instead of fixing pain points I have daily. It may continue for so long. I hope to see they defend the removal of AI assistant completely, by moving it completely off the main channel. They are not MSFT that can waste a billion here and there. Every AI feature they make is paid by…
Yeah, I cancelled my subscription when it became clear they just did not care about my custom any more. The core products had pain points just sat with open issues forever, and they just started doing nothing but trying to upsell me on stuff I didn't care about or want. I used to be a huge evangelist for JetBrains products, I loved having a product where I felt like I could just pay and get something of quality, it's…
Just to be clear: JB have been and still are so ahead in ergonomics that I still cannot imagine going back to VS and I will renew my personal one without any doubt. For now. I just question their priorities.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#59> 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…
I agree, it shouldn't be. Particularly as I can't imagine them removing reviews if it praised a feature that was subsequently removed or changed.
Re: JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
#60The 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?
Any specific reason you’d say that? I’ve been using Rider for years it has been strictly getting better with each version. (Please don’t disappoint me by saying “they added an optional feature and I don’t like it”)
I just spent half a day troubleshooting why PHPStorm suddenly took 15 minutes to become responsive. The cultprit was the built-in markdown plugin, probably after an update. I don't have time for that.
Another annoying thing is they also removed the modal commit window in favor of a VS code style commit. It was removed without notification, and I had to install a plug-in to restore it.
IDE UI is the most important thing for me, I've built muscle memory to use it without think. When they tinker with it, it forces me to think about the IDE instead of about what I'm working on, and that's really annoying. Not enough to lead me to change, for now.