[chaoz_]

It surprises me how JetBrains managed to lose such a great market opportunity.

I don't think they ever going to be able to re-claim large chunk of developers who are now fine with thin VSCode-like + Terminal for non-JVM languages.

Perfect example of how large corp with research capacity failed to navigate their product changes.

[foobazgt]

My most enjoyable and productive experiences with AI so far have looked more like pair-programming than agent-based vibe coding. That is to say, I care about the details, and I want to read, understand, edit, and curate the codebase. I find that if I'm not limiting AI to relatively small enhancements per request-review cycle (100 or so LOC), then when things inevitably go off the rails, I'm in a deep hole that takes a long time to climb out of.

I haven't tried out Junie yet, but the concept seems pretty compelling to me. I want a good IDE for the language I'm using, and I'd like an AI that's well integrated and trained on delegating to it for algorithmic/deterministic transforms (e.g. IDE-driven refactorings).