[thiht]

Ok but I’ve used VSCode for almost 10 years, got mad at this once, and disabled it instantly. This sucks, but maybe don’t overreact?

[artyom]

I'd like my tools to not have a time-bomb attached to them, no matter if it takes 10 years to explode.

And honestly I think this case is just a perpetually clueless manager getting over-joyous with vibecoding (to the point of being marveled at changing two lines of code without blowing everything up).

It's probably going to be reverted in the coming days. Which doesn't change the fact that it's a very Microsoft way of operating.

[abustamam]

Yeah, a company can only be shitty and "fix" their mistakes for so long until the general public realizes that the company doesn't have its customers best interests at heart.

[stravant]

Feels like a poor philosophy to me. 10 years feels like plenty of value to get out of something before switching.

[therealdrag0]

How is this a time bomb? What was destroyed?

[jagged-chisel]

- Automatically activated audio cues (purportedly for accessibility) without consideration for users with auditory sensitivity; continued to release changes that would override attempts to disable the unwanted sound; dismissed with "but how else could we possibly notify people that we added the feature?"

- Refusing for over seven years to offer a simple UI to clear "issues" pane, instead blaming plugin authors for not 'owning' the content. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/66982

Microsoft hasn't cared about the actual users of VSCode for a very long time.

[abustamam]

Just because you can opt out doesn't mean that they're not shitty for defaulting you to opt in.

[bigstrat2003]

It is certainly bad behavior that Microsoft did this. But it's irrational to jump from there to "this is what they always did and always will do" as OP did. Corporations are not unchangeable monoliths, and it was perfectly reasonable to use Microsoft tools when they were acting decently towards their users. Now that they have turned user-hostile, it makes sense to avoid them until they learn their lesson, and so on.

People act like a corporation has character traits, as a person does. But it doesn't. You can't strongly predict future behavior based on the present the way you can with a person, so it makes no sense to have seething eternal hatred for a company.

[artyom]

Hatred for a corporation is as useful as hatred for a nuclear bomb. No matter how harmful or destructive, it lacks any sort of free will that would make it a reasonable target for such hate.

There's actual people making it happen, though.

[abustamam]

I always take "I hate X company" as "I hate the decisions X company makes and the people who make these decisions" for this reason.

But it's kinda verbose.

[vpribish]

Microsoft is unforgivable. So much time and so much money and they made the world worse whenever they could make a buck. They need to be broken up.