
James Stanier: The end of the non-technical engineering manager
leaddev.comu/scarey102 — 20 hours ago

Back in October, Charles wrote about JetBrains' muddled agent strategy: https://leaddev.com/ai/breaking-down-jetbrains-complex-ai-agent-strategy
Now that they're all in on Central, is this what customers really want?
"JetBrains built its reputation over two decades by making tools that developers wanted to use, and it now faces the uncomfortable task of dismantling parts of that identity to survive a shift it didn’t initiate. Sunsetting beloved features, repricing products mid-cycle, and betting on a future that most customers haven’t arrived at yet are not easy calls, even when they’re arguably the right ones."