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by swader999 98 days ago
I didn't renew Jet Brains this month. Been a loyal customer and would have quit jobs from 2008 onwards without it.
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Me too.

I used to report bugs, read release notes; I was all in on the full stack debug capability in pycharm of Django.

The first signs of trouble (with AI specifically) predated GitHub copilot to TabNine.

TabNine was the first true demonstration of AI powered code completion in pycharm. There was an interview where a jetbrains rep lampooned AI’s impact on SWE. I was an early TabNine user, and was aghast.

A few months later copilot dropped, time passed and now here we are.

It was neat figuring out how I had messed up my implementations. But I would not trade the power of the CLI AI for any *more* years spent painstakingly building products on my own.

I’m glad I learned when I did.

I'm using Claude in JetBrains, using the Zed editor's ACP connector.

It's actually pretty slick. And you can expose the JetBrains inspections through its MCP server to the Claude agent. With all the usual JetBrains smarts and code navigation.

Fwiw, IntelliJ at least has an MCP server so coding agents can use the refactoring tools. Don't know about the other JetBrains IDEs.