diff --git a/.config/quickshell/modules/common/functions/string_utils.js b/.config/quickshell/modules/common/functions/string_utils.js
index ee7b3eaeb..9fa704ada 100644
--- a/.config/quickshell/modules/common/functions/string_utils.js
+++ b/.config/quickshell/modules/common/functions/string_utils.js
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ function getDomain(url) {
 }
 
 function shellSingleQuoteEscape(str) {
-    // First escape backslashes, then escape single quotes
+    //  escape single quotes
     return String(str)
-        .replace(/\\/g, '\\\\')
+        // .replace(/\\/g, '\\\\')
         .replace(/'/g, "'\\''");
 }
 
@@ -33,7 +33,3 @@ function splitMarkdownBlocks(markdown) {
     }
     return result;
 }
-
-function unEscapeBackslashes(str) {
-    return str.replace(/\\\\/g, '\\');
-}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.config/quickshell/modules/sidebarLeft/aiChat/AiMessage.qml b/.config/quickshell/modules/sidebarLeft/aiChat/AiMessage.qml
index e09a1a37d..eb85dfd9d 100644
--- a/.config/quickshell/modules/sidebarLeft/aiChat/AiMessage.qml
+++ b/.config/quickshell/modules/sidebarLeft/aiChat/AiMessage.qml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ Rectangle {
     property real codeBlockHeaderPadding: 3
     property real codeBlockComponentSpacing: 2
 
+    property bool enableMouseSelection: false
     property bool renderMarkdown: true
     property bool editing: false
 
@@ -250,6 +251,7 @@ Rectangle {
             TextArea {
                 Layout.fillWidth: true
                 readOnly: !root.editing
+                selectByMouse: root.enableMouseSelection || root.editing
                 renderType: Text.NativeRendering
                 font.family: Appearance.font.family.reading
                 font.hintingPreference: Font.PreferNoHinting // Prevent weird bold text
@@ -281,7 +283,8 @@ Rectangle {
                     anchors.fill: parent
                     acceptedButtons: Qt.NoButton // Only for hover
                     hoverEnabled: true
-                    cursorShape: parent.hoveredLink !== "" ? Qt.PointingHandCursor : Qt.IBeamCursor
+                    cursorShape: parent.hoveredLink !== "" ? Qt.PointingHandCursor : 
+                        (root.enableMouseSelection || root.editing) ? Qt.IBeamCursor : Qt.ArrowCursor
                 }
             }
         }
@@ -330,9 +333,7 @@ Rectangle {
                             id: copyCodeButton
                             buttonIcon: "content_copy"
                             onClicked: {
-                                Hyprland.dispatch(`exec wl-copy '${StringUtils.unEscapeBackslashes(
-                                    StringUtils.shellSingleQuoteEscape(segment.content)
-                                )}'`)
+                                Hyprland.dispatch(`exec wl-copy '${StringUtils.shellSingleQuoteEscape(segment.content)}'`)
                             }
                             StyledToolTip {
                                 content: qsTr("Copy code")
@@ -422,10 +423,10 @@ Rectangle {
                             }
 
                             TextArea { // Code
-
                                 id: codeTextArea
                                 Layout.fillWidth: true
                                 readOnly: !root.editing
+                                selectByMouse: root.enableMouseSelection || root.editing
                                 renderType: Text.NativeRendering
                                 font.family: Appearance.font.family.monospace
                                 font.hintingPreference: Font.PreferNoHinting // Prevent weird bold text
@@ -463,6 +464,16 @@ Rectangle {
                                 }
                             }
                         }
+
+                        // MouseArea to block scrolling
+                        MouseArea {
+                            id: codeBlockMouseArea
+                            anchors.fill: parent
+                            acceptedButtons: root.editing ? Qt.NoButton : Qt.LeftButton
+                            onWheel: (event) => {
+                                event.accepted = false
+                            }
+                        }
                     }
                 }
             }
diff --git a/.config/quickshell/services/Ai.qml b/.config/quickshell/services/Ai.qml
index aac7b8e9e..a4791b04d 100644
--- a/.config/quickshell/services/Ai.qml
+++ b/.config/quickshell/services/Ai.qml
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ Singleton {
                 + ` ${headerString}`
                 + ' -H "Authorization: Bearer ${API_KEY}"'
                 + ` -d '${StringUtils.shellSingleQuoteEscape(JSON.stringify(data))}'`
-            // console.log("Request command: ", requestCommandString);
+            console.log("Request command: ", requestCommandString);
             requester.command = baseCommand.concat([requestCommandString]);
 
             /* Reset vars and make the request */
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ Singleton {
 
                     if (dataJson.done) requester.message.done = true;
                 } catch (e) {
-                    console.log("Could not parse response: ", e);
+                    console.log("[AI] Could not parse response from stream: ", e);
                     requester.message.content += cleanData;
                 }
             }
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ Singleton {
                 const parsedResponse = JSON.parse(requester.message.content + "]");
                 requester.message.content = `\`\`\`json\n${JSON.stringify(parsedResponse, null, 2)}\n\`\`\``;
             } catch (e) { 
-                console.log("Could not parse response: ", e);
+                console.log("[AI] Could not parse response on exit: ", e);
             }
         }
     }