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VS Code: Open Source AI Editor (code.visualstudio.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

At least the spying vector is open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

But the poor performance is due to TypeScript and later this year they will release a Go compiler that will make it 10 times faster.