AI IDE trials are too short to make a real decision

Most AI IDE trials are long enough to make you curious, but not long enough to make you confident. A few days of autocomplete demos and onboarding is not the same thing as testing a tool against your real workflow. You still have to see how it behaves in an actual codebase, how it handles your prompts, how often it gets in your way, and whether it saves enough time to justify another monthly subscription. That is the part I think a lot of developers skip. The real problem with AI IDE trials If y