JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant

Post by mystified5016 » Thu, May 01, 2025, 12:49 AM UTC

kevincox wrote: post #70

lolinder wrote: post #22

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Yes, it's a terrible excuse, and it's concerning that they think it's a good one. I highly doubt that they make a habit of fielding requests from plugin authors to nuke outdated reviews: you simply can't scale the verification that would require to do honestly. If they don't offer this as an option to others then this move is wrong both for the reasons you give and because they're claiming a privilege in their app st…

I don't think that they think it is a good one. It was just the best excuse they could come up with after being caught. The "good idea" was to remove the reviews without anybody noticing.

Post by andrekandre » Thu, May 01, 2025, 12:53 AM UTC

terminalbraid wrote: post #2

> The spokesperson added that the company could have done better They seem to have to say that a lot about this product, yet they don't really seem to learn any lessons. When the original flood of bad reviews came it it was because they made that plugin bundled with the IDE and then had a "bug" where it couldn't be effectively removed. There was no precedent for bundled a paid plugin nor need for it to be bundled wit…

  > 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.

Post by ycombinatrix » Thu, May 01, 2025, 1:04 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?

Post by unfunco » Thu, May 01, 2025, 1:23 AM UTC

nojs wrote: post #38

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’re in a difficult position because half their users want more AI but the other half complain loudly when it’s forced on them. Cursor is beating them because they can deeply embed AI everywhere without worrying about this.

Post by JumpCrisscross » Thu, May 01, 2025, 1:53 AM UTC

bigyabai wrote: post #72

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #14

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…why can’t I edit this 9-minute old comment for formatting? @dang

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.