Recent conversation on #HackerNews [1] make be aware of an interesting setting in the Visual Studio Code. Namely the chat.disableAIFeatures which allows to disable all AI features [2] of the editor.
Not opposed to using AI assistance. I personally do use it as well. But I like to keep VSCode lighter and snappier for ad hoc editing as it is not my main IDE.
[1] I switched from VSCode to Zed
[2] Hide and disable GitHub Copilot AI features