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sillysaurusxlast Saturday at 7:40 PM0 repliesview on HN

That seems like a false dichotomy. AI doesn’t decide what kind of code to write. That’s still up to the human (for now). Jetbrains also has to have some kind of AI offering, if only because otherwise users will migrate to competitors that do.

It’s an interesting question whether we’ll need an IDE at all in the future. I used to program in Vim with minimal help. Maybe one day I’ll program in Vim with maximal help from an AI. It would be nice to say "find where authentication happens" and it pulls up all instances of auth code. But that’s also another example of a feature that can go into an IDE: case sensitive search, regex search, natural language search. So I’m skeptical we won’t be using IDEs in the future. And if all of this is a part of an IDE, then that’s squarely in Jetbrains’ wheelhouse.