Jetbrains unbundles AI Assistant and is now available as a separate plugin

[donmcronald]

I read the ToS when this issue surfaced last month. I think JetBrains tried to do a reasonable job of restricting the use of code by the AI companies.

I think the thing they missed is that many of us don’t trust those companies and don’t think AI is going to bring the gains being promised. I personally think we’ll see larger volumes of mediocre junk and fewer amazing, innovative things built by extremely talented experts.

I don’t want to contribute anything to AI.

[dartos]

We’ll definitely see more junk, but I doubt we’ll see fewer amazing things

[gorjusborg]

I am not against AI, per se, but I am against giving unfettered access to my data implicitly for who knows the purpose.

In many cases it isn't even my data to grant access to.

[adl]

"Beginning with the Beta version of IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, AI Assistant has been unbundled and is now available as a separate plugin."

This was a mayor complaint about a month ago:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39238666

[thegrim000]

Man I hate their licensing system. Now I have to buy an updated license so my fallback version will be at least this new version. So I have to pay for another license to get this fix.

[0xy]

I tried AI Assistant and it's profoundly bad. The free trial didn't work (server error), so I put in my credit card and paid the extra cost. Same server error. Asked in the Discord and they said it was a known error that you could buy the product and it wouldn't be available 'for a while'???

Come back tomorrow, it works, but barely. It's slow, inserts code in random places that makes no sense, can't answer basic questions about basic functions.

It's useless. There's MVP tier and then there's not even testing whether you can purchase the product.

[PeterStuer]

Direct link to the relevant part if you want to avoid lots of scrolling: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2024/03/intellij-idea-2024-1...

[adl]

Thanks! I swear I put that direct link on the submission, maybe it got striped.

[sparrowInHand]

There should be a customer veto gremium in any company, with customer representives who can veto the latest hyped up bs before it gets forcefed into something vital and does real harm to the core product.

[egberts1]

Oh good, I wasn’t prepared to deal with LLM infested with hyper-partisan stuff as its seed content.

[happytiger]

A day late and 200 dollars short.

[throwaway5959]

I almost cancelled my JetBrains subscription when I saw that shit. Very bad move on their part.

[freilanzer]

Why?

[mistrial9]

lets assume that Ubuntu Linux from Canonical is a solid platform. However, snapd is intrusive and still not stable IMO. The implementation of libc as a snap component, and the Firefox Browser as a snap component, are notably onerous. Some linux downstream from Ubuntu remove snapd completely.

JetBrains -- please support installation on Ubuntu minus the snapd system. thanks in advance

[MrDresden]

Just download it directly from Jetbrains then, this isn't an issue.

Pycharm's archive for instance can be found here https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/other.html

[thegrim000]

You can just download the software from their site as an archive with pre-built executables in it and it works just fine on Ubuntu.

[linuxalien]

I've not used Toolbox that other commenters are mentioning, but there is an unofficial ppa. https://github.com/JonasGroeger/jetbrains-ppa. I used to do basically the same thing, build our own deb packages for use in our org, and the PPA works perfectly.

[Skhalar]

I run kubuntu on my home computer with snapd removed and have 0 issues running JetBrain products.

What issue are you having ?

I've installed IntelliJ via Toolbox. Prior to that I did install it using the archive they provide.