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It's a tool for programmers. Use google + ctrl+f. Not a hill to die on.

How is googling it meant to work when they keep changing what the AI settings are called each month?

Alternatively, use the single setting that was literally just given to you above. That is pretty much as easy as it gets without resurrecting Clippy to help you figure it out. It's not reasonable to expect a massive bloated gui if people have 10k+ settings they are using.

The problem is that they keep adding new ai "features" all under different names and different settings, then shuffling the settings around.

Having a "master switch" doesn't matter, since their standard operating procedure is to waffle-stomp more "features" into vscode every month that will fall under a different setting and then they'll continue to shuffle them around.

Their indifference towards their own user-hostility with regards to this is the main problem.

I'm confused—how does putting in a master switch for those who want to opt-out entirely from the AI revolution occurring at the moment not matter? Are you saying that new features will fail to respect it?

LLMs are pretty good at this sort of thing.

I use emacs, so maybe they're better trained on my editor. But I've had a lot of success resolving little annoyances I have just lived with for years talking to Claude in gptel.

I can't get it to do real work for shit, but it's A+ at helping me waste time with yak-shaving. lol

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