alt Hacker NewsThe jetbrains ai assistant was truly terrible when it came out. They blocked the use of the major LLM’s and had supposedly a better European (?) LLM for coding, but I could not get it to work in any reasonable way. Now though they do allow you to use the major LLMs I believe and so it’s immediately much more useful. There is also Junie, which I’m not sure how that compares it’s a bit confusing but also seems better.
Recall that when LLMs were first coming out, there was a very loud and aggressive stance *against* using the standard models.
Their choice of which LLM to use is probably related to those earlier, more cautious stances.