alt Hacker NewsJetBrains really needs to support alternatives fast. Cursor, CoPilot, etc all need much better integration. VS Code is becoming almost mandatory for companies that force the use of LLM tools.
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thought copilot was supported via a plugin in all jetbrains IDEs? op is referring to the company's own built-in ai support iirc
Really? This stuff is mandatory for those who are dependent on it. Many people still just look at the code in a separate browser tab and make a meaningful decision of if they want to pull something in or not. Why even use an IDE is the better question. What exactly is an IDE for if the AI will search and determine where to add/remove code? I don't think Jetbrains needs to lose focus on their product to compete with products that are masquerading as an IDE but have no intention of fulfilling the role of an IDE. They want to re-invent it, so it's better they simply stay in their own lane as they will be cannibalized by their own genre as there are no rules in that wild-west. For example, why does my automatic code writing genie look like a fucking IDE? Is there a reason? Cursor and the like will have their own competition and they'll struggle to keep up with a blank screen that just magically outputs software with no visibility into the code. Then they'll be stuck trying to sell people why it's better to let magic be written inside of an IDE, both competing with new magic and old hard tools (like Jetbrains). Cursor is not the future, it's dead on arrival.
Jetbrains and existing IDEs are much more focused for exactly what it is, manual code writing/inspection. How they integrate AI should be done meaningfully to improve the IDE experience. If they want to be in the business of reinventing code-writing, then you have to scrap the IDE altogether.
> JetBrains really needs to support alternatives fast.
They do support offline models: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/ai-assistant/switching-to-off...
I also used the Continue.dev plugin for a bit which worked nicely with Ollama but was buggy when it comes to the UI, their AI Assistant feels better in that regard: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22707-continue
Sadly seems like their Junie tool doesn't support that yet, would be pretty cool to have that convenience instead of needing something like Aider or other tools for more complex multi-step edits: https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/