VSCode is popular with many professional software developers, but my poll indicates that JetBrains IDE products are the most popular. However, JetBrains met with negativity recently when they added AI assistant to their products. While AI-powered services have been overhyped, they come with concerns about LLM's security, legal risk, privacy, and ethics. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/LLM-1760/Can-not-remove-Jetbrains-AI-Assistant-plugin-completely
@nixCraft they claim that the AI assist is trained exclusively on your local coffee, but the suggestions it makes are nonsense, referencing variables that haven't been declared, etc. I turned it off. I still love their tools though, just not this new feature.
@nixCraft Any time a company forces so called "AI" into their products it always makes me think that they aren't doing this because they legitimately think "AI" will improve the product, but because they hope to use it to extract something profitable from their users. Otherwise they'd just make it optional. There is literally not one single reason at all not to make it optional...
@nixCraft I’m often surprised by internet outrages and this is one of them: Sounds like a totally fine response to me. It certainly makes sense JetBrains experiments with AI (they’d be stupid not to), and it’s a matter of not enabling the feature to not use it. But I can read from other replies how some people get quite hurt 🤷