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VS Code extension draining battery

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The Codescene VS code extension is draining battery like crazy recently. Sometimes it seems to be stuck in an initializing loop. When that happens VS code absolutely destroys the battery on my laptop, for example it drained 30% in around 25 minutes, on a laoptop that has a 6-8 hour battery life under my normal workloads. Before this issue the Codescene extension had no impact on battery life and power consumption. The only way I’ve found of fixing it right now is by disabling the extension. I’m on MacOS version 15.7 and Visual Studio Code version 1.101

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  • Tomato Fidget

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    Dec 18, 2025

    With the latest public release, most of the issues should be gone.

    We’ll keep improving things from different angles for next release.

  • Tomato Fidget

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    Dec 15, 2025

    Thanks,

    over the last few days we’ve improved various resource consumption issues.

    We’ll have a new public release tomorrow.

    Cheers - V