All of the LLMs that IDEs use belong to big companies that currently lose money on their service. You can expect price increases once you get locked in. Given t

All of the LLMs that IDEs use belong to big companies that currently lose money on their service. You can expect price increases once you get locked in. Given the costs of running a useful LLM at scale, good luck finding one you can call decentralized, participatory, open source, and independent from commercial interests. If and when we have to pay true costs -- enough to make the AI companies at least break even -- the value proposition (if any) evaporates. The companies flogging these things have to build momentum and market share before investors get discouraged by LLMs/AI, or the underlying technology turns into a commodity you can download with npm. No LLM "understands" anything, so you won't find an IDE/LLM combination that can "understand" your "entire" code base. Of course the companies and people with financial interests will claim their tools can do that. Given the way LLMs train by scraping sites like StackOverflow, Github, and Reddit, you can expect quality to decline over time as LLM-generated code makes its way into the training. Besides the photocopy-of-a-photocopy effect, what LLMs consider important or dominant will turn into a feedback loop until we all use Python and write code like newbs doing a tutorial. I wouldn't look to LLMs to "iterate rapidly and continuously adopt the best, newest tools quickly." You use "best" twice in the title and two more times in the body of the post. Since "best" doesn't describe an objective property of AIs, IDEs, tools, or anything else, you need to explain what "best" means to you. Other people will have different criteria and metrics. I wouldn't crowdsource opinions about the "best" programming language or tool to decide what applies to my specific application and business. Why would I trust a collection of anecdotes about something as complex and sophisticated as an IDE+LLM for writing code? I can't even get the good tech review sites to reach a consensus on the "best" power bank for my phone.