I’m trying to run some Python code in VS Code in an environment.

1. Step one. Open cmd from the folder containing the environment, activate the environment, and run VS code

then:

2. Seems like VS Code has opened in the environment
3. But when I run some code, it complains that “Numba needs NumPy 1.21 or less” while pip freeze shows that that is indeed the case in that environment:

So, what am I doing wrong here?