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VS Code: Open Source AI Editor (code.visualstudio.com)
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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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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I wonder if this will make its way into vscodium

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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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    • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    This is getting downvoted but how is this not good? Perhaps if you are adamant about not having this feature in your editor?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's an extension so it can be deactivated. That's good. But it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested, to shoehorn people into workflows that have been proven to be unproductive and introduce another telemetry spying vector. While several performance issues and years old bugs remain ignored. So of course people hate it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    It's an extension so it can be deactivated

    Article says:

    [...] then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

    So... maybe you won't be able to deactivate it anymore. Not cool, microsoft (but totally expected).

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested

    At my last job there were several people using copilot very successfully, some even had the paid subscription, and clearly it was very useful to them. I tried it and found it not that good, barely saves me any time and sometimes actively wastes time, but that's me. I won't judge if others want to use it, as long as the code gets reviewed by humans, like during a pull request (and it was, in our case).

    It's just a tool. Just because I don't find it very useful, I shouldn't tell others not to use it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    One thing I don't like though, the article says:

    then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

    So ... you won't be able to deactivate it anymore? not cool, it I interpreted it correctly.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The auto-complete in VSCode is one of the few AI use cases that I actually find useful. Passing a whole bunch of args in a python class function call to set instance variables just becomes that little bit less tedious. Lots of little things like that add up to nice time savings.

    The "ask copilot" features are absolutely terrible though.

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