Their management decisions are strange, right. They had a nice tool called Upsource, we used it for code reviews. Then they sunset it and told us to use JetBrains Space instead. After we migrated to JetBrains Space, they said, oh wait, we sunset it too. So we had to migrate to GitLab. And now, with AI-assisted coding, I don't even need their IDE anymore, because I mostly look at diffs. And that kinda brings us back to Upsource. That thing could have been grown to support AI-assisted development, like, get rid of all the heavy IDE stuff, and just have a place for code reviewing agents' output and merging things. Somewhat like GitLab Lite but fully agentic-oriented. I think it would have covered 99% of our use cases.

I heard rumors JetBrains started going downhill around 2022-2023 because they severed ties with employees in Russia's St. Petersburg, which housed their R&D and all (although many employees were relocated but who knows).