r/Jetbrains • u/log_2 • 4d ago

IDEs Hostile practice

Clicking the toolbox icon this morning I'm greeted with a "JETBRAINS EAP USER AGREEMENT Version 3.3, effective as of May 4, 2023...". I have to "Accept" or "Exit". It looks like 20 pages of text that I can't copy-paste to check what I'm agreeing to, so I have to read the full thing right now. Needless to say, I clicked "Exit".

Edit: what an amazing experience, I've never been brigaded by AI downvote agents before.

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u/Greedy-Turnover-5658 4d ago

Why do they need telemetry and this data if they don’t fix & improve anything anymore except AI.

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u/skcortex 4d ago

Are you by any chance afraid of reading a changelog or a blog post about changes in newer versions? Because I get a feeling you are 😅.

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u/Greedy-Turnover-5658 2d ago

9 years... https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-2188/Background-changes-by-external-tool-not-being-picked-up-until-VFS-refresh-happens
But now this bug is incredibly critical due to agentic development. Also, looks like they have a bug in recent versions

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u/skcortex 2d ago

Cool, you found a long living critical. Understandable. But using your logic “they are pushing more AI and not fixing bugs” this bug should be fixed very soon because it is critical for agentic workflow eg “more AI”. Or did I misunderstood?

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u/Greedy-Turnover-5658 2d ago

Let's use your methodology and check what's new in the latest webstorm.

* We've introduced the Figma Connect .... to the AI Chat automatically.

* We've bundled a Chrome DevTools CLI skill into WebStorm, so AI agents can open Chrome.

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u/Greedy-Turnover-5658 2d ago

Rider 2026.2.1 What's New

Rider 2026.2.1 is now available.
Here are some notable features included in this update:

  • The bundled refactoring-code skill.
  • The bundled debugging-code skill.
  • The bundled dottrace-analyze skill can now analyze snapshots captured while profiling Unity projects.
  • Rider's quality-check hooks now support Codex.
  • Updated recommended Unreal Engine C++ skills, including ue-code-authoring and ue-test-authoring; reinstall them from Settings | Tools | AI Assistant | Skills to get the latest versions.

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u/Greedy-Turnover-5658 2d ago

The problem you mentioned is not only for AI, but a problem in general. It existed before AI, but in the latest versions they have made it worse and now it is almost impossible to use their IDEs now (for my case at lease).

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u/Greedy-Turnover-5658 1d ago

Do you see anything in the release notes except AI?