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As a paid customer I have to say this has to go. IMMEDIATELY. I was surprised when it showed-up out of nowhere during the latest update. The problem is very
by robomartin 3y ago
As a paid customer I have to say this has to go. IMMEDIATELY.
I was surprised when it showed-up out of nowhere during the latest update.
The problem is very simple: AI and cloud solutions can be VERY problematic in certain domains.
Read: A deeply undesirable liability.
We had the same problem when Altium decided to take their Altium Designer electronics CAD products and pretty much force everyone into having this cloud-based layer in the tool. No. Thanks. We cannot do that. At all. After decades with Altium, we switched to KiCad. Works fine for the vast majority of designs, even fairly sophisticated work. More importantly, the cloud-based liability is gone. For anything else --which has been very rare-- we have older non-cloud releases of AD we can use.
Don't shove AI or cloud onto your customers. Let them choose. Some can't risk it at all. AI-generated code might sound fantastic to some. While, in other circles, it opens the door to untold liability. I don't want that shit to even show-up without a very explicit installation of a feature, plug-in, extension or whatever. It needs to be conclusively and demonstrably separable.
Also, always remember customers have options. Be careful. We are actually considering moving away from JetBrains tools for this very reason. For now, we'll wait and see. More specifically, we'll wait and see if all semblance of AI is removed from the tools by default and only available as an explicitly installed extension. I have to be able to have tools audited (in a legal context) and show that AI was not a part of the process.
For us, this does not add value. It adds liability.