[Pepp38]

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.

[hoistbypetard]

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.

[misnome]

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.

[omoikane]

> 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