Two big reasons:
1. It’s a distraction from developing a solid IDE. I’m already displeased with their obvious VSCode envy and the new UI, so focusing on shiny features makes me unhappy as a customer.
2. I don’t want AI assist, let alone “deeply integrated” AI assist. It is a security and privacy nightmare. As the article notes about the privacy policy, “Neither the user nor JetBrains has control over this third-party data processing.”
Perhaps I’m a Luddite, but I think tools like this and copilot are terrible, and I don’t want to be forced into them.
2. I don’t want AI assist, let alone “deeply integrated” AI assist. It is a security and privacy nightmare. As the article notes about the privacy policy, “Neither the user nor JetBrains has control over this third-party data processing.”
Perhaps I’m a Luddite, but I think tools like this and copilot are terrible, and I don’t want to be forced into them.