Dear Microsoft,
I don’t want to have a love-hate relationship with Visual Studio Code, but you’re making it really hard.
Once upon a time, Visual Studio Code was just an editor. You configured it with add-ons to make it do whatever job you needed.
And that was great! I gravitated towards using VS Code for multiple jobs in various languages. I could set up a Python workflow with extensions to add database-wrangling functionality. I could put together an environment for digital book publishing. I could even set up a project for screenwriting! (Yes, I have a screenplay in progress. A man can dream.)
Now, it’s not like all this went away yesterday. I can still do all of the above. But literally every new feature in VS Code these days is all about agents, AI, and LLMs. It makes me wonder if there’s anyone left in the building who is working on the actual editor anymore.
