Thank you, this does not get discussed enough on HN. I used to look forward to monthly releases of VSCode and actually read the changelog carefully to see what new features/enhancements I could make use of. These days I just glance and ignore it completely -- almost everything is Copilot, MCP blahblah. Such a disappointment.

You would think with all the AI magic, they would deliver more "core editor" features/enhancement. No, just more Copilot.

Awesome, this is creating an opportunity for a new text editor. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I can confidently predict that the breakout dev tool in the next few years will have LLM features, but won’t have forgotten stuff like editing features. As Claude Code has already demonstrated, you do t even need an editor for good LLM integration.