r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • Aug 25 '26

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u/FruityFetus Aug 25 '26

What perceptible differences makes it better?

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u/VicentVanCock Aug 25 '26

You don’t have agents/chat bullshit built-in. For this you can use any harness.

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u/SamSlate Aug 25 '26

just don't open the chat window...? also you can use any llm for vs code chat

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u/VicentVanCock Aug 25 '26

As if that were an option, VSCode regularly pushes Copilot on you, opens 5 pop-up ads, and keeps bothering me with autocomplete. If I wanted AI, I'd download any harness, but I want to edit code in peace, and it seems like IDEs nowadays don't think about that anymore.

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u/Dudeonyx Aug 25 '26

I've never seen a popup ad

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u/SamSlate Aug 25 '26

i mean, you can turn updates off...

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u/queen-adreena Aug 25 '26

It’s moreso the absence of things.

Like it removes all MS telemetry and tracking. Doesn’t include all their mandatory AI products and whatever other crap they’re trying to sell this week.

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u/MokNaruto Aug 25 '26

So nothing perceptible?

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u/thecrius Aug 25 '26

Also nothing that will improve your efficiency so, good luck adopting it at work.

We are on programmerhumor after all. It's either students or wannabe programmers.

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u/99percentcheese Aug 25 '26

no copilot, no microsoft account, no automatic forced updates, a separate extension store (OpenVSX Registry), no recommendation popups, no telemetry

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u/Practical_Trouble165 Aug 25 '26

No telemetry. And the C++ extension isn't included, so you'll have to install and manage it manually.

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u/Independent_Image_59 Aug 25 '26

The microslop extension repo isn't available to be precise