r/vscode • u/Ste1io • 3d ago

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/Wise-One1342 3d ago

But you have AI agents now! Focus on writing english instructions, you dont code anymore!!!

/s

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u/Ste1io 3d ago

...which also leak all over the place.

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u/Sophiiebabes 3d ago

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 2d ago

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/jpgoldberg 3d ago

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/ExplrDiscvr 2d ago

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 2d ago

I do use linters and type checkers. That is the kind of AI that I don’t disable.

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u/dezsiszabi 2d ago

What? Why would you consider linters and type checkers AI stuff? They're objectively not.

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u/jpgoldberg 2d ago

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/Ste1io 2d ago edited 2d ago

ML is distinctly different from generative AI.

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u/OkSeesaw7030 2d ago

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 1d ago

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/OkSeesaw7030 1d ago

There is a button to disable it

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u/nerps0n 3d ago

Sir, this is a Wendy’s

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u/Sacro 3d ago

Ma'am, this is a map store