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Re:CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use by SJC_Hacker on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @11:33AM (#43917052)
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.

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Re:CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use by nine_k on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @01:48PM (#43918669)
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.

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Re:CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use by falleng0d on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @03:46PM (#43919884)
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.

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Re:CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use by jimbokun on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @04:21PM (#43920201)
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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