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The thought is if AI turns out to be what its billed as, you won't need IDEs.

It would be like investing in a horse-and-buggy whip manufacturers around the turn of the century.



The fun thing is that JetBrains do have AI, and it's pretty good.

They can't invest in AI the amounts that Microsoft can, of course.


You can use Copilot and a bunch of new Agents such as augment and firebender which are very good.

In the worst case you’ll still be able to use AI tooling similar or equal to what you have in VS code. Even Windsurf has an JetBrains plugin.


Well in that case you won’t need tools like Cursor either.

Just vibe code away and never look at the source it’s generating.




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