Disable Copilot Chat answering "typing animation" in VS Code [closed]

Question

How to disable this annoying animation when one prompts Copilot in VS Code and Copilot is "thinking" for a while and then instead of just showing the answer it renders the answer letter by letter simulating human typing back.

How to turn that off? Because it is waste of time to look at this and slows everything down.

Also what is the official name of this animation for further googling?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure that's just the nature of LLM technology. LLMs generate tokens one at a time, and at the time of this writing, that "animation speed" is the speed that current LLMs tend to generate tokens at. It's not artificial slowness. It's actually that slow. Their work is fairly computationally expensive.