JetBrains AI assistant . How does it compare?

JetBrains is well known for its IntelliJ family of IDEs and has always bundled smart assistive tools. Now, like other vendors and tools, the company has added a privacy-first AI assistant to its full suite.

How does it compare to competing tools like Copilot? Does quality suffer for privacy and data sovereignty? I'll take a look!

Thanks to JetBrains for providing me with a free premium month.

https://www.jetbrains.com/ai/


00:00 Intro
01:00 General Overview
01:37 Preferences
02:03 Code explanation
03:15 Generate documentation
04:29 Explain code
04:42 Suggest refactoring
05:44 Find problems
05:46 Generate unit tests
06:01 Generate code
06:57 Same features with Flutter
07:11 Explain project
08:24 Code refactoring
08:32 Rename variables
10:50 AI Assistant in Writerside
12:30 Ask documentation questions
13:18 Generate content
14:04 Explain markup
14:49 Summarise
15:15 Create TLDR
15:52 The Grazie plugin
21:00 Summary