alt Hacker NewsI don't think they can compete with AI IDEs. They should maybe focus on the niche that they are good at, and completely get rid of anything ML/AI related. It's going to be a lot cheaper.
It's better to be the king of a niche.
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like what , manually refactor code in hours, when agent can do it for you in minutes, or setting up debug/dev env when agent can also do that for you?
This would make sense for me, as a long time Jetbrains user and not desiring to use AI for anything apart from single line code completion, which the current Jetbrains tools do quite well.
I have used their support before, to be extremely impressed. This is an area that they could differentiate themselves in.
They could establish a foothold in AI accelerated development but they sadly aren't doing it, instead focusing on "developing agents" (aka openclaw/pi/codex/claude simulacrum #9998).
> They should maybe focus on the niche that they are good aT
Ironically, back then they praised JetBrains for not following hype staying focused on IDE and Dev environment