I've started with PhpStorm only in 2015, then needed PyCharm, DataGrip, and eventually IntelliJ. At some point it just made sense to switch to the All Products Pack. In total, I paid about $975 over 10 years, about $8/month, a pretty good deal. But my workflow has moved. These days it's mostly terminal ( Ghostty ), coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI ), and orchestration (Conductor). Code gets written, tested, and validated across preview environments (Railway, Vercel) or fully automated loops (bash, agent-browser ). If I really need an editor, I open VS Code for a quick change. I’ve also been experimenting with a more autonomous SDLC stack, things like gstack from Garry Tan , OpenAI's Symphony , and building ambient intelligence at https://github.com/scoutqa-dot-ai/thor on top of OpenCode . Lots of development without any Integrated Development Environments. Renewal is coming up next month and I don't even have any of their apps installed. Sorry JetBrains, it'...
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