Why did you remove ask mode in VSCode extension!?

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The Codex app is available starting today on macOS, with Windows coming soon. For a limited time, Codex is available through ChatGPT Free and Go subscriptions—and we’re doubling rate limits for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users—across the Codex app, CLI, IDE

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Consider that OpenAI is trying to push people into a product that will create subscription upgrades and dependence on a product that will cost additional prepaid use in ChatGPT. Making the promo preview free for onboarding.

A choice could have been made, “no, we don’t want to simply give free users free buddy-buddy chats with an expensive coding model.”