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.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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My conspiracy theory is that AI is already running our tech companies, and that’s why everyone and their brother is pushing hard for AI integration, despite everyone knowing AI is nowhere near ready for public consumption.
CEO's are almost universally out of touch with reality, and usually chase trends thinking it will help them get higher profits and garner more investment. AI is just the newest bandwagon for them to mindlessly jump on.
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 looks like it's opt-in for everyone except those who get Ultimate for free (students, open-source maintainers, etc). Paid Ultimate is opt-in, free Ultimate is opt-out, and the free Community editions are opt-in with a for now attached.
students
So that means half their training data is going to be on first year CS students
Oh no, that sound rather chaotic...
Ugh…. And I was thinking about giving Rider a try too.
Neovim it is!
Edit - after reading some more… it looks like you can easily opt out? Opt in would be better, of course.
Neovim is a great choice anyway.
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.
Vim.
Helix.
*nano
Ed.
Try Zed. It’s a lot like VSCodium (de-MS’d VSCode), but written in Rust, so it’s stupid fast.
last i heard zed was ai slop :/
It is.
https://zed.dev/ - check out the video on the front page. Most of it (2:08 - 6:18, the whole video is 8:40) is shilling for an integrated LLM.
I mean… I just don’t plug in or use any of the LLM shit, and it works quite nicely. You’re not forced to use that part of it, no matter how much they try to market it.
And if it gets to the point where it’s truly unavoidable, there’s always the “fork it and strip it” option, since the code is open source.