$1000 per year and it still can't help but spy on you. Fuck these companies.

Apparently, Emacs doesn't do that. Nor does vi, kate, kdevelop...

So they are asking coders to train an AI to take away jobs from coders?

Anyone see the flaw there?

Kate will never do this to you. Kate is great.

Stating that this is on by default is misleading. If you or your company pay for the product or if you use the open source (“community”) or EAP version of it, it’s disabled by default.

The option is only enabled by default in one very specific use case:

We are asking our users to help with this, and here’s how it works:

• For companies: Admins can enable data sharing at a company-wide level. To support early adopters, we’re offering a limited number of free All Products Pack subscriptions to organizations willing to participate while we explore this program. For companies that are not willing to opt in to the program, nothing changes, and as always, admins are in control.
• For individuals on non-commercial licenses: Data sharing is enabled by default, but you can turn it off anytime in the settings.
• For individuals using commercial licenses, free trials, free community licenses, or EAP builds: Nothing changes. You can still opt in via the settings if you are willing to share data with JetBrains (and your admins, if any, allow it).

For reference, the non-commercial licenses are the full, commercial versions of the IDE provided “at no cost for education, hobby projects, and open-source work.” The risk of entering confidential data into your IDE that could then get collected is much lower for these use cases… though still not zero.

Do those users get a notification of this change when installing an update? If not, that’s concerning. But if they do, and can then quickly opt out if desired, then this really seems like a non-issue. This is especially true since JetBrains makes it clear that being able to anonymously collect data is the reason they’re able to offer those products for free; thus why users on those licenses cannot opt out of that anonymous data collection.

It’s pretty clear that JetBrains is saying “We would like your data so we can improve our product; if you’re okay with that, we’ll let you use our tools for free.” And they also have options, free and paid, where you don’t have to give up your data. Seems like a reasonable trade for a person to be able to make to me.

How is this not blatant copyright violation?

My company has been trying to switch to JetBrains for several months. Fun.

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It sounds like they're contradicting themselves in the mail they sent:

Previously we said we wouldn’t use your inputs, data, outputs, or suggestions to train AI models. This is still the case, unless you explicitly allow us to do so

(emphasis not mine)

The word explicit doesn't IMO cover anything but informed opt-in, not opt-out of any kind.

It's genuinely impressive how the whole ecosystem of proprietary software is speedrunning enshittification at an unprecedented rate. The net is tightening, and the only escape is FOSS.

I'm still running v2023.1 because that's the last version before they stuffed so much AI into it that my CPU screams constantly while running it. The writing is on the wall with those guys.

I feel there will be big JetBrains leak with all the stolen code they say it's secured with restricted access.

this is why i stil use sublime text. it edits code with none of the bloat.

What frustrates me most is that jetbrains had a winning formula

They made, imo, the best ide's, striking the balance between intuitive and useful without drifting too far into bloat

I just don't vibe with jetbrains wanting access to my code and data and how i use the ide itself - imagine if your hammer took a picture every time it was swung while tracking the swing trajectory and force and sent it to a thousand unknown people

its just fucking weird and its fucking weird that jetbrains presses this onto us - even as an opt-in its wierd

Even at it most innocent, and not the reality of trying to build the tool that ousts us out of our trade and craft, i still dont want some code cuck sitting in the corner of my periphery hyperventilating on every keystroke and variable name i make