A while ago I looked at the JetBrains AI assistant for its own stable of IDEs, but we can now work in Visual Studio Code with JetBrains AI Assistant as an extension. As I’ve noted before, I’ve had some difficulties switching between Large Language Model (LLM) code extensions within VS Code, so I will tread carefully when installing this public preview.
JetBrains is respected for its work on IntelliJ, so I wasn’t entirely sure why the company wrote a VS Code extension for its AI Assistant — which was relatively late to the LLM party….