As someone who has 35 years of programming experience and now vibes half the day, this is a refreshing take from a junior programmer.

One way you could use LLMs w/o inducing brain mush would be for code or design reviews, testability, etc.

If you see codebases you like, stash them away for AI explanation later.

There are fast and customisable editors already. AI assistance is a green field where there's a new opportunity to be the first/best.

Is it possible to shut the AI things off? As in properly hide all the buttons and stuff that relates to it?

I was interested in zed as I was looking for a performant VSCode replacement, but its inability to fully remove AI integration and disable the prominent sign-in button made me lose any interest. Judging by the project’s response or lack of it on these topics, I am worried about adopting zed in my workflows.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12325

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/6756

Yes, you can. Just edit your settings: { "features": { "edit_prediction_provider": "none" } }

Its a small button in the top right corner. Very oit of the way unless interacted with. I use zed because its faster and cleaner than vscode. I dont want AI in my editor.