Cannot view the serial monitor on VS Code PlatformIO with board ESP32-S3

This is only intended for the STM32 Arduino core. If you want That translates to adding build_flags = -DARDUINO_USB_MODE=1 -DARDUINO_USB_CDC_ON_BOOT=1 to the platformio.ini, as previously discussed in e.g. ESP32-C3 SHA-256 comparison failed and no start - #2 by maxgerhardt.