Autopilot (Preview) doesn't keep Copilot going

[AArnott]

Description

Whether I'm on the 'bypass' or the 'autopilot' mode, GPT-5.4 seems to want to stop frequently along the way just to tell me what it has done and what its next steps are. There seems to be no difference in how much work autopilot gets done.

Issue Details

Item	Value
Issue Category	Bug
Target	Visual Studio Code
VS Code Version	Code 1.124.0 (1b50d58, 2026-06-09T21:29:32-07:00)
OS Version	Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

System Info

Item	Value
VS Code Version	Code 1.124.0 (1b50d58, 2026-06-09T21:29:32-07:00)
OS Version	Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
CPUs	AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96-Cores (64 x 2500)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled GPU0: VENDOR= 0x10de, DEVICE=0x2b85 [NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090], DRIVER_VENDOR=NVIDIA, DRIVER_VERSION=32.0.15.9186 ACTIVE GPU1: VENDOR= 0x1414, DEVICE=0x008c [Microsoft Basic Render Driver], DRIVER_VERSION=10.0.26100.8521 Machine model name: Machine model version: direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off trees_in_viz: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled webgl: enabled webgpu: enabled webnn: disabled_off
Load (avg)
Memory (System)	767.51GB (563.11GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 4c2231a9-269d-4864-86f5-50506236c91d
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Code/1.124.0 Chrome/148.0.7778.97 Electron/42.2.0 Safari/537.36
Installation pure	true

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