diff --git a/packages/vscode-ext/client/src/client.ts b/packages/vscode-ext/client/src/client.ts
index 83cbd59e..83a80129 100644
--- a/packages/vscode-ext/client/src/client.ts
+++ b/packages/vscode-ext/client/src/client.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export const startClient = (context: vscode.ExtensionContext) => {
   );
   // The debug options for the server
   // --inspect=6009: runs the server in Node's Inspector mode so VS Code can attach to the server for debugging
-  let debugOptions = { execArgv: ["--nolazy", "--inspect=6009"] };
+  let debugOptions = { execArgv: ["--nolazy" /*"--inspect=6009"*/] };
 
   // If the extension is launched in debug mode then the debug server options are used
   // Otherwise the run options are used
diff --git a/packages/vscode-ext/package.json b/packages/vscode-ext/package.json
index e2f6c025..239ad6ca 100644
--- a/packages/vscode-ext/package.json
+++ b/packages/vscode-ext/package.json
@@ -125,11 +125,11 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "vscode:prepublish": "yarn run compile",
-    "compile:tsc": "tsc -p ./",
+    "compile:tsc": "tsc -b",
     "compile:grammar": "js-yaml syntaxes/squiggle.tmLanguage.yaml >syntaxes/squiggle.tmLanguage.json",
     "compile:vendor": "(cd ../squiggle-lang && yarn run build) && (cd ../components && yarn run bundle && yarn run build:css) && mkdir -p media/vendor && cp ../components/dist/bundle.js media/vendor/components.js && cp ../components/dist/main.css media/vendor/components.css && cp ../../node_modules/react/umd/react.production.min.js media/vendor/react.js && cp ../../node_modules/react-dom/umd/react-dom.production.min.js media/vendor/react-dom.js && cp ../website/static/img/quri-logo.png media/vendor/icon.png",
     "compile": "yarn run compile:tsc && yarn run compile:grammar && yarn run compile:vendor",
-    "watch": "tsc -watch -p ./",
+    "watch": "tsc -b -watch",
     "pretest": "yarn run compile && yarn run lint",
     "lint": "eslint client/src server/src --ext ts",
     "format": "eslint client/src server/src --ext ts --fix",
diff --git a/packages/vscode-ext/server/src/server.ts b/packages/vscode-ext/server/src/server.ts
index 84d9fd44..dd22a0ff 100644
--- a/packages/vscode-ext/server/src/server.ts
+++ b/packages/vscode-ext/server/src/server.ts
@@ -45,12 +45,8 @@ connection.onInitialize((params: InitializeParams) => {
 async function validateSquiggleDocument(
   textDocument: TextDocument
 ): Promise<void> {
-  // The validator creates diagnostics for all uppercase words length 2 and more
   const text = textDocument.getText();
-  const pattern = /\b[A-Z]{2,}\b/g;
-  let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
 
-  let problems = 0;
   const diagnostics: Diagnostic[] = [];
 
   const parseResult = parse(text);