Jetbrains unbundling AI assistant doing the right thing(youtrack.jetbrains.com) |
Jetbrains unbundling AI assistant doing the right thing(youtrack.jetbrains.com) |
> "Provide the possibility to remove a plugin completely from the system"
I use an AI code assistant for my own code, but would not do it professionally, without customer approval or corporate policy. I have mixed feelings about it, regardless. I think it might be slowing my learning a bit and I question how "Pythonic" the solutions provided are, but on the other hand, I'm learning Python, so ... I dunno.
Had they made the announcement and shown how it was better than GH Copilot, I'd have been curious to try it out. I want to use the most effective tool for the job. Instead I'm feeling pretty bitter and want their junk removed.
Jetbrains has for a long time included a set of optional plugins that are disabled by default and make HTTP calls to Jetbrains servers:
- Spaces
- Code With Me
- Shared Indexes
- their plugin authoring plugin
- (probably more I'm forgetting)
Now they released plugin #5+, that is also disabled by default, and also requires you to take a series of several explicit steps before you can enable it and use it, but this time everyone loses their minds? I feel bad for the engineers there.
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