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I actually respect the move. It’s not subtle, and it’s not trying to please everyone.

You may agree or not with the direction, but at least it’s clearly stated.

I appreciate the clarity, anyway. I will wait and see how intrusive the AI focus turns out to be.

If it turns out to be very intrusive, I guess I'll use Clion for my platformio stuff:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/platformio.html

(since I've already got a Toolbox subscription from them)

and neovim or zed for my blog. That's really all I was using VS Code for anyway.

It’s honest. Time was when the number of improvements in every release was impressive and sometimes radical improvements.

For at least a couple of years it’s been nothing but AI, I am happy to ignore updates and should probably just turn them off now.

It's not subtle, and it's not trying to please everyone.

Reminds me of Dan Luu's thread on Microsoft communication style:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30128061 - Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale (2022-01-29, 272 comments)

https://xcancel.com/danluu/status/1487228574608211969

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