You may agree or not with the direction, but at least it’s clearly stated.
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.
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.
Reminds me of Dan Luu's thread on Microsoft communication style:
>>30128061 - Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale (2022-01-29, 272 comments)