alt Hacker NewsSolid move by Altman - good signal they’re serious about capturing the Claude Code market from Anthropic.
What I don’t understand is why hasn’t anyone bought Jetbrains yet.
Atlassian? AWS? Google?
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user34283 • last Thursday at 1:54 PM
Atlassian? Bitbucket as a platform for agentic development.. shudder
KeplerBoy • last Thursday at 1:54 PM
Most likely because Jetbrains is not for sale. Google almost certainly offered to buy at some point.
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Because Jetbrain strategy wasn't to burn money with free tools to eventually exit with the jackpot. They have been profitable for over a decade, simply asking users to pay a fair price for great product.