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VS Code: Open Source AI Editor (code.visualstudio.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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We will open source the code in the GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license, then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So they're open-sourcing some minor glue to connect to an API of a big proprietary online service, or what's this about?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For example, that someone could fork it and make it use a local or self-hosted LLM instead. Yes I know, other alternatives exist (Continue extension) but aren't that good.

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