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No idea why they thought they can compete with frontier AI labs on that, it's entirely waste of money

They also tried to push AI feature set as a separate subscription which is just insane in current tooling market.

All users wanted is good integration of multi-AI providers in their base offering. I think they are slowly shifting to that but that's a lot of money wasted already

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For the same reason that Rivian won’t add CarPlay. And Chamberlain locks out hacks to manage your garage door via HomeKit.

These companies see the interfaces with the customer moving into domains they lack the taste and capability to compete.

They want to own that channel even if it is to spam them with ads like BMW did with the Spider-Man “special feature.”

Or Chamberlain has (reportedly) playing with the location of buttons and ads in their “app.”

Rivian, BMW, Chamberlain have the market dominance to ignore what customers want.

Jetbrains does not but had / has to try.

JB had (has?) really good products in their specific market. I’d rather run Claude Code via an integration than try to convince Junie to do proper tool calls.

They integrated air recently into intellij, and I believe it's quite fruitful. You can use any agent you want, they can work locally, in separate worktrees, or remotely and you can switch between them, and merge their results back properly.

Perhaps they're concerned they'll lose market share to other IDEs that integrate AI better

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