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This sounds like one of the companies most disrupted by AI.

I have zero affiliation with the company, but I’m genuinely curious what the team is shipping today for AI-assistance programming. In my bubble, I haven’t seen anyone use it in the last six months.

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One of the companies most disrupted by AI? Sorry, but that is nonsense. I have been using their products proferssionally for over 20 years, and still do to the same extent as ever. That's while being fully on the Agentic Coding bandwagon. Admittedly their attempts at integrating AI have been an abject failure, but who cares? My setup is Claude or OpenCode on one screen, Jetbrains (IDE mostly), both viewing and working on the same codebase, and that works great for me.

It is likely still the best environment to read and debug Java code, which you still need in addition to whatever agentic tooling you have. Advanced editing features have clearly lost value though. Is it still worth the money? I don't pay for it myself so I don't know, but probably for Java at least. But obviously it doesn't make sense to pay for it if you just use it as an occasional text editor.

I use IntelliJ at work on a daily basis, and I assume that holds for a significant chunk of folks, who use Java in a professional capacity.

How are they disrupted by AI? Like the times I have used LLMs is the terminal… while I still have the Jetbrains IDE open

I had sworn to never use VSCode until Pycharm fell behind on integrating LLMs. And I was a loyal JB user for 10+ years. Then Zed and Cursor came out and I never touched another JB product since then.

I am using IntelliJ Idea for Java projects for the most part. Other than that I am still using VSCode. At the very least the impact on JetBrains products is not noticeable by me. If it were something more ridiculous like Windows breaking because of some AI feature then I would not use it.

Does Android Studio count as Jetbrains? It's core to mobile development still.

AI tools are not designed for code reviews for some reason. Maybe everyone is clicking "accept all". I end up reviewing in either Android Studio or even Fork.

It also does code reviews much better than GitHub. Maybe in time, Jetbrains will do a specialized tool for code review that doesn't need to use any AI.

I still use sublime text for almost of 90% of my coding! and i think some people still using jetbrains products, you call us classical developers

Sorry to disappoint you maybe, but your point sounds nonsensical to me. Disrupted by AI in which sense? Some very subjective numbers: all my past and present employers are using JB software almost exclusively (which estimates across 4 companies with ~5k total tech headcount).

i used to use bunch of their products like goland, webstorm etc..., now i spend that money on AI.

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