As part of MTA 8 we will be publishing a VSCode IDE plugin which is intended to handle 2 use-cases in the iDE:

• Analysis, the standard use-case we've satisfied with prior IDE plugins
• GenAI, the newer "Developer Lightspeed" use-case

The same IDE plugin code will satisfy both, as such we need to be certain that users who are only interested in the Analysis use-case have a good experience.

The plan is that the same code base will satisfy both use-cases.

We will check the configuration to determine if the GenAI feature has been configured, perhaps this is checked via the specification of a model provider being configured and marked active.

The UX controls around "Get Solution", "See Results", etc will be guarded in a way that if generative AI is disabled those UI buttons/menu/screens will be either hidden or disabled.

At time of writing this no one has made a decision if the UX controls need to be hidden, or if simply graying out/disabling is sufficient.  The last conversation the team had implied that graying out/disabling was sufficient.