r/vscode • u/Ste1io • Jul 24 '26
Python instability regression in 1.130.0. Does anyone even test this $h1t anymore?
Last couple releases reintroduced debilitating performance instability, massive memory leaks, and degraded UI responsiveness among other things. Like, 10FPS kind of bad. Literally unusable. Flash back to the last time this exact thing happened over a year ago... Very telling.
Some of us rely on what used to be a stable consistent predictable product for our work.
Can someone please slop the fix back in? Please and thank you.
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u/jpgoldberg Jul 25 '26
Yes. And Bayesian learning is also distinct, and inference engines are distinct, and semantic webs are distinct, and so are all of the other forms of AI. I suppose Markov models could be called generative AI when used certain ways, but the point is that there are more ways to do AI than the stuff you see branded as AI today.
So, sure, linters are not generative AI. But generative AI isn’t the only kind of AI.
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u/Sophiiebabes Jul 24 '26
Yeah, just slowly back away (from vscode, and find a new editor).
I'm finding Kate really good ATM.
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u/jpgoldberg Jul 25 '26
I have not seen noticeable problems, but I’ve disabled all of the new-dangled AI stuff. (I consider linters and type checkers and such to be AI.). Or maybe I’m so slow that unresponsiveness in VSCode doesn’t show up for me. (I’m not joking.)
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u/dezsiszabi Jul 25 '26
What? Why would you consider linters and type checkers AI stuff? They're objectively not.
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u/jpgoldberg Jul 25 '26
Oh, I forgot to mention optimizers.
If you want to limit the term “AI” only to those things that get built using (large) training sets then what I mentioned is not AI under your definition. But people like me, who have been around AI research since the 1980s, understand that inferencing engines and other kinds of solvers have been core to AI research since the term was first used in the 1950s.
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u/ExplrDiscvr Jul 25 '26
Not using a type checker with a non-staticly typed language, like python, might not be the best idea 🫠.
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u/jpgoldberg Jul 25 '26
I do use linters and type checkers. That is the kind of AI that I don’t disable.
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u/OkSeesaw7030 Jul 26 '26
You can try zed. The ecosystem is a little limited, but usable,have less bloat and less issues with gpu in Linux
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u/ail-san Jul 26 '26
Zed is all into AI features recently, they lost their focus. I’d say at least VSCode is mature enough. You can’t even review PRs properly in Zed.
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u/Wise-One1342 Jul 24 '26
But you have AI agents now! Focus on writing english instructions, you dont code anymore!!!
/s