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Given the number of vs code competitors, I think "extinguish" maybe on the other side this time.

If anyone else would be generous enough to offer a free IDE with free AI code completion, they could give VS Code a run for its money, but as far as I know this hasn't happened yet? Zed for instance is available for free, very AI-centric, and you can use it with any of the popular LLMs, but you still have to pay for the LLM...

Bring your own AI token is totally fair, given the cost of AI.

The annoying thing is removing a perfectly working intellisense default.

If Jetbrains removes their on-device (non-AI) code indexer and suggestion systems then I will no longer be a paying customer for example. Despite being a All Products Pack user for the last... idk, 15 years?

Intellicode is being removed, not intellisense. Intellicode seems to have been a (free) version of copilot using local models.

Intellisense, which is an “on-device (non-AI) code indexer and suggestion system,” is still in place.

They can try but they no longer have the power to do that.

if they waited another year or so they could have killed off jetbrains

patience is a virtue

I use both but really don't see it. There are so many scenarios I've come across which jetbrains products do "out of the box" that vscode require plugins which usually don't install with sensible defaults. Just debugging rust for example is a night and day difference between vscode and rust rover.

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