diff --git a/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/language-server/src/lib/baml_project_manager.ts b/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/language-server/src/lib/baml_project_manager.ts
index e8adaf2f6..d9ee2fc55 100644
--- a/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/language-server/src/lib/baml_project_manager.ts
+++ b/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/language-server/src/lib/baml_project_manager.ts
@@ -666,8 +666,13 @@ class BamlProjectManager {
     })
   }
 
-  getProjectById(id: URI): Project {
-    return this.get_project(uriToRootPath(id))
+  getProjectById(id: URI): Project | undefined {
+    try {
+      return this.get_project(uriToRootPath(id))
+    } catch (e) {
+      console.error(`Error getting project by id: ${e}`)
+      return undefined
+    }
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/language-server/src/server.ts b/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/language-server/src/server.ts
index 185e7f0fe..1520d0057 100644
--- a/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/language-server/src/server.ts
+++ b/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/language-server/src/server.ts
@@ -113,8 +113,13 @@ export function startServer(options?: LSOptions): void {
     }
   })
 
-  console.log = connection.console.log.bind(connection.console)
-  console.error = connection.console.error.bind(connection.console)
+  // hellovai 🤷‍♂️: I have no idea why remove this prevents Output Panel
+  // from not showing up. But it does still keep logs, so I guess this works.
+  // Adding the snippets back in, will make the Output Panel will show up in
+  // a very annoying way whenever we have syntax errors in the BAML files.
+  //
+  // console.log = connection.console.log.bind(connection.console)
+  // console.error = connection.console.error.bind(connection.console)
 
   console.log('Starting Baml Language Server...')
 
@@ -343,7 +348,6 @@ export function startServer(options?: LSOptions): void {
 
   documents.onDidChangeContent(async (change: { document: TextDocument }) => {
     const textDocument = change.document
-
     await bamlProjectManager.upsert_file(URI.parse(textDocument.uri), textDocument.getText())
   })
 
@@ -360,6 +364,9 @@ export function startServer(options?: LSOptions): void {
     }
 
     const proj = bamlProjectManager.getProjectById(documentUri)
+    if (!proj) {
+      return
+    }
 
     try {
       const error = proj.checkVersionOnSave()
@@ -447,6 +454,9 @@ export function startServer(options?: LSOptions): void {
         const splitWord = completionWord.split('{{')
         completionWord = splitWord[splitWord.length - 1]
         const proj = bamlProjectManager.getProjectById(URI.parse(doc.uri))
+        if (!proj) {
+          return undefined
+        }
         const res = proj.verifyCompletionRequest(doc, params.position)
         if (res) {
           if (completionWord === '_.') {
diff --git a/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/vscode/src/plugins/language-server/index.ts b/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/vscode/src/plugins/language-server/index.ts
index 4f788d847..a6036c094 100644
--- a/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/vscode/src/plugins/language-server/index.ts
+++ b/typescript/vscode-ext/packages/vscode/src/plugins/language-server/index.ts
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ const activateClient = (
       // need to append line for the show to work for some reason.
       // dont delete this.
       client.outputChannel.appendLine('\n')
-      client.outputChannel.show()
+      client.outputChannel.show(true)
     })
     client.onNotification('baml/message', (message: BAMLMessage) => {
       client.outputChannel.appendLine('baml/message' + JSON.stringify(message, null, 2))