Disable AI Slop in VS Code

settings.json

{
    // Disable AI slop
    // ===============

    // The (supposed) single off switch, which doesn't actually work
    "chat.disableAIFeatures": true,

    // Turn off the chat panel, and all of the background services for AI slop
    // that I don't want to use
    "chat.agent.enabled": false,
    "chat.extensionTools.enabled": false,
    "github.copilot.chat.copilotDebugCommand.enabled": false,
    "github.copilot.chat.reviewAgent.enabled": false,
    "github.copilot.chat.reviewSelection.enabled": false,
    "github.copilot.enable": false,
    "chat.emptyChatState.enabled": false,
    "chat.mcp.access": "none",
    "chat.commandCenter.enabled": false,

    // Hide AI prompts from empty window and new terminal sessions and files
    "workbench.editor.empty.hint": "hidden",
    "terminal.integrated.initialHint": false,

    // Data analysis tool has AI prompts
    "dataWrangler.experiments.copilot.enabled": false,

    // Remote SSH has AI prompts
    "remote.SSH.experimental.chat": false,

    // GitHub extension adds AI
    "githubPullRequests.experimental.chat": false,
    // And so does GitLab
    "gitlab.duoChat.enabled": false,

    // Disable advertisement to auto-generate Jupyter notebooks
    "notebook.experimental.generate": false,

    // Python extension clogs up refactoring menu with AI slop options that
    // don't work if you have AI disabled
    "python.analysis.aiCodeActions": {
        "convertFormatString": false,
        "convertLambdaToNamedFunction": false,
        "generateDocstring": false,
        "generateSymbol": false,
        "implementAbstractClasses": false
    },

    // Java project manager advertises copilot whenever a project uses an old
    // Java version
    "java.dependency.enableDependencyCheckup": false,
}
  

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