Why are the IDEs of becoming worse and worse and worse? Right now I have a window which I cannot close because no menu visible. Cursor is always hidden, have to use the mouse. It is so
2026-08-04 19:59 UTC
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@Feyd@programming.dev 2026-08-04 20:21
Probably because they’re obsessed with LLMs and heavy usage for coding reduces quality.
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@infinitevalence@discuss.online 2026-08-04 20:29
I have moved to terminal applications. Micro is my current pick but I’m just editing scripts and doing basic things most of the time.
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@staircase@programming.dev 2026-08-04 23:40
Jetbrains do use AI when writing their IDEs. But I also heard something about the Ukraine war affecting operations, cos they had people working in the countries involved. This was hearsay though.
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@Mikina@programming.dev 2026-08-05 04:59
Once JetBrains started to get into AI bullshit, I immediately canceled my subscription. You get a permanent perpetual license for the version you spend a year paying for, so I have been just using the version before they started sloppifying the entire editor. It runs ok, and does what I need, don’t see a reason to upgrade. I’ve recently gotten access to a license at work, and oh my god the editor has gotten so much more worse and slower after the two years. It sucks, I liked JetBrains as a company, but at this point I would not recommend it to anyone, unless installing like an ancient version. But yeah, in the toolbox you can install older versions. Go with like 2023-24 one and you’ll have a much better experience.
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@boomzilla@programming.dev 2026-08-05 06:39
I’m using Rustrover for a year now on KDE and I can’t observe the performance decrease or the AI craze reported here. Neither have I witnessed any impactful bugs like OP describes. In fact I’d say I haven’t seen much bugs at all. I’m not using the AI/LLM features at all and I can’t remember if I disabled them or if that’s even possible but when I read here that JetBrains is overly focussed on AI, I’d say that you shouldn’t dare to leave your carefully crafted nvim environment and take a peek at what’s happening over in the vs-code world as their LLM commitment on a whole 'nother level. Don’t want to diminish what others here experience with their IDEs. Maybe I’m just having the “It works on my machine” syndrome but I would be interested about what OS and specific IDE OP ist using.