alt Hacker NewsMy employer gives me access to Jetbrains AI, I work on a Vue Frontend with a Kotlin Spring Boot backend.
The codebase is not too old and has grown without too much technical debt, with complex prompts I never had decent success. Its usefull for quick "what does this do" checks but any real functionality seems to be lacking.
Maybe I'm not refining my prompts good enough but doing so would take longer than implementing it myself.
Recently I tried Jetbrains Junie, which acts like Claude if I understand it correctly.
I had a really refined prompt, ran it three times with adjustments and fine tuning but the result was still lacking. So I tossed it and wrote it myself. But watching the machine nearly getting it right was still impressive.
Jetbrains AI runs on a "discount LLM" and their ratings were below 2 stars. I tried two others, which played games with me to reduce context and use cheaper models. I then switched to Aider which leads me to believe a moderate Claude user may need to spend 30$ a month, but I use Gemini models and I didnt exceed 5$.