Yeah I wish they were spending some development effort on the actual IDE and not just all AI stuff. There’s still basic stuff like the Process Viewer CPU usage just not working at all, which makes it very difficult to diagnose performance issues - one of the main complaints people have about VSCode!

Though I will say using AI to generate alt text is a pretty decent idea.

I haven’t been excited for vscode releases for a long time. It’s all just AI functionality, which I couldn’t care less about.

I’m conflicted by this release.

On one hand it has a common sense feature where the editor shows what changes in a file are already staged which will be good because it’ll help people separate their code changes into different commits for unrelated changes (as opposed to just shoving everything into a single unmanageable tangled commit), but then it’s adding all this ai slop which pushes users to just put all the slop into a single commit anyway.

I just ditched it last month, finally. For Codium though, I’m still not committed to a retvrn to emacs. Exciting though, should be a new version out soon then! Edit: well, maybe not that exciting. I just checked the link and of course its like 95% “improvements” to the forced Copilot integration.