Thx to TryNinja, I am now playing around with Antigravity, which I did not know from a close from VS Code.  Like many of us, I've moved from ChatGPT to Gemini, mainly (for me) because it allows you to work "indirectly" with github.  Antigravity is now promising to take development even further - it can troubleshoot a SQL query in one agent while reviewing load times of CDN vs static in another, all using the same token history.

I'll actually have my extension released this year (deadline is Jan 14) and I basically threw away all my old code and started from scratch.  It's still annoying, but I told it to stop apologizing, and it has.