I have paid out of pocket for Jetbrains for 15 years. I don’t think I’ve opened it in the past year and should probably cancel my subscription.

For me, the things that made Jebteains great just don’t matter anymore.

given that their revenue is still increasing, I'm guessing it's the latter

What stands out to me is https://www.helgilibrary.com/companies/jetbrains/total-cash-...

I have no idea what that contains, but it appears to be a rather large dip, compared to previous years. Overall it's not really that interesting without context and commentary from JetBrains.

I find IntelliJ IDEA a great tool, even for my fully vibecoded apps. I edit the READMEs in it, look at the version history, use it for debugging, for builds, and so on.

My guess is that people aren't abandoning their IDEs. Their market is probably growing. I suspect they're burning money on subsidized inference, just like everybody else.

Like or not, LLM are getting better at debugging than humans... Not sure for how long will companies will keep paying for IDEs (which, tbf, are peanuts compared to the LLM cost).

Why not both?

If engineers are abandoning IDEs then shouldn't they be following the engineers?

Both

The truth is there is no money to be made from (good) offline software.