I think this is probably true in most cases:

Our diagnosis is that individual developers do not pay for tools. Their manager might, but engineering managers only want to pay for discrete new capabilities

It feels like this is where the big players like Atlassian and Microsoft have such a huge advantage because if you can bundle your tool into something the org already pays for it is such an easy win.

I would be reluctant to get into the “build a dev tool” market unless I was just looking to get acquired or wasn’t looking to make money.

I’m not convinced at all about the whole AI coding thing (sending data plus the ethical bit plus the actual value outside of demos).

I pay for tools, but I feel like I’m an exception.

It’s nice that they open-sourced most of their code when they ended. www.kite.com/blog/prod…