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by FFFXXX 866 days ago
It possible to disable this plugin. I have it disabled.[1]

The linked YouTrack thread[2] in the article says so as well. It is just not possible to remove the plugin entirely from your device.

Regarding the plugin being enabled by default the official response by Jetbrains says [3]

  The AI Assistant plugin is enabled by default and menu items and tool windows are visible in the UI. However, AI Assistant functionality is NOT available by default, and NO requests are sent to the JetBrains AI Service unless ALL of the following conditions are met:
  
  - The user has explicitly consented to use the AI Assistant and is using the trial or has purchased the corresponding subscription.
  - The AI Assistant has not been disabled for a particular project.
  - In the case of a commercial IDE license, the AI Assistant has to have been enabled at the organizational level. We’d like to reiterate that for commercial IDE licenses, unless this is explicitly enabled by your organization’s administrators, AI Assistant will not be available.
I'm not saying this is perfect and this can obviously still be a problem on e.g work devices.

[1] https://imgur.com/ETyFlCZ

[2] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-1760/Can-not-remove...

[3] https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-1760/Can-not-remove...
1 comments
rincebrain 866 days ago
On release, IIRC, disabling it did not work persistently, ostensibly due to a combination of bugs, so a lot of people found that especially egregious.

I think it was something like it would default to enabled again if you uninstalled the updated version, since you can't uninstall the bundled version? I don't quite recall.

But that made people very upset indeed.

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