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Microsoft Open Sources Copilot

130 points by riejo 1y ago

Grimeton 1y ago
When they sell you another way to spy on you as a feature, like they always did... And the title is misleading. It reads like they open source the AI.
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jeroen79 1y ago
Hope they also stop automatically pushing all these ai crap into vscode, its useless to experienced developers.
- madduci 1y ago
  Right? I have to dodge the suggestions every time I want to use the Tab button.
  - tomtom1337 1y ago
    Turn it off?
    - TowerTall 1y ago
      How?
      - drdeca 1y ago
        From https://np.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1ax4cnt/how_do_i_disable_ai_code_suggestions/ https://np.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1ax4cnt/how_do_i_dis... I find a suggestion that if you use Ctrl+Shift+P to open the keyboard shortcuts menu, and then search for "suggest", there will be an option there to disable it. Also, the website for visual studio code seems to suggest that the copilot/LLM based suggestions are only present if you have the extension for it installed. (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/intellisense#_enhance-completions-with-ai https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/intellisense#_enh... ). If this is true, then (according to https://bobbyhadz.com/blog/uninstall-extensions-vscode https://bobbyhadz.com/blog/uninstall-extensions-vscode ) you can either click "extensions" on the right side-bar or press Ctrl+Shift+X to open the extensions menu, type the name of the extension or select it from the installed extensions list, and then either click uninstall or disable depending on whether you want to to uninstall it or just disable it. I don't have visual studio code installed, so I haven't tried these solutions, but I imagine that they will probably solve your problem. Hope this helps.
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silverwind 1y ago
It's not Copilot being open-sourced, just a VSCode extensions.
- denysvitali 1y ago
  It's not "just" a VSCode extension. This is literally the key to use Copilot on non-Microsoft builds of VSCode - eventually even implementing a .copilotignore and supporting Copilot on stuff like GitPod / GitLab's workspaces.
az226 1y ago
They’re afraid Cursor is going to drift away from VS Code.
- behnamoh 1y ago
  the quality gap between agentic AI in Cursor and VSC is like night and day. If VSC would add LM Studio/llama.cpp support, it could win some programmers.
  - nailer 1y ago
    I haven’t had the time to try it, but apparently a few weeks ago Copilot had a major update. Maybe someone else I can use can come in how it performs vs Cursor?
    - behnamoh 1y ago
      yes, I got excited after that major update and tried VSC, but it was not ironed out and clearly they got their system prompts wrong.
      - rubslopes 1y ago
        It's much better now, but it only works well with Sonnet 3.7.
  - atonse 1y ago
    Is there a good way to replicate cursor tab in VS code? I don’t mean the interaction model, but how accurate it is. What model does Cursor use? It’s quite good AND fast.
    - fintechie 1y ago
      https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby
jitbit 1y ago
So they make "building your own Cursor" easier. But at the same time they ban your fork from using Extension Marketplace. For context: last month they banned Cursor and all other forks from using C++, C# Dev Kit, Python and other extensions. Guess this was preparation for this move.
rpozarickij 1y ago
I wonder whether they have plans to open source the JetBrains Copilot extension as well. It feels like it's receiving much less attention than the VS Code extension (which is understandable).

130 points by riejo 1y ago

When they sell you another way to spy on you as a feature, like they always did... And the title is misleading. It reads like they open source the AI.

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jeroen79 1y ago

Hope they also stop automatically pushing all these ai crap into vscode, its useless to experienced developers.

madduci 1y ago
Right? I have to dodge the suggestions every time I want to use the Tab button.
- tomtom1337 1y ago
  Turn it off?
  - TowerTall 1y ago
    How?
    - drdeca 1y ago
      From https://np.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1ax4cnt/how_do_i_disable_ai_code_suggestions/ https://np.reddit.com/r/vscode/comments/1ax4cnt/how_do_i_dis... I find a suggestion that if you use Ctrl+Shift+P to open the keyboard shortcuts menu, and then search for "suggest", there will be an option there to disable it. Also, the website for visual studio code seems to suggest that the copilot/LLM based suggestions are only present if you have the extension for it installed. (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/intellisense#_enhance-completions-with-ai https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editing/intellisense#_enh... ). If this is true, then (according to https://bobbyhadz.com/blog/uninstall-extensions-vscode https://bobbyhadz.com/blog/uninstall-extensions-vscode ) you can either click "extensions" on the right side-bar or press Ctrl+Shift+X to open the extensions menu, type the name of the extension or select it from the installed extensions list, and then either click uninstall or disable depending on whether you want to to uninstall it or just disable it. I don't have visual studio code installed, so I haven't tried these solutions, but I imagine that they will probably solve your problem. Hope this helps.
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silverwind 1y ago

It's not Copilot being open-sourced, just a VSCode extensions.

denysvitali 1y ago
It's not "just" a VSCode extension. This is literally the key to use Copilot on non-Microsoft builds of VSCode - eventually even implementing a .copilotignore and supporting Copilot on stuff like GitPod / GitLab's workspaces.

az226 1y ago

They’re afraid Cursor is going to drift away from VS Code.

behnamoh 1y ago
the quality gap between agentic AI in Cursor and VSC is like night and day. If VSC would add LM Studio/llama.cpp support, it could win some programmers.
- nailer 1y ago
  I haven’t had the time to try it, but apparently a few weeks ago Copilot had a major update. Maybe someone else I can use can come in how it performs vs Cursor?
  - behnamoh 1y ago
    yes, I got excited after that major update and tried VSC, but it was not ironed out and clearly they got their system prompts wrong.
    - rubslopes 1y ago
      It's much better now, but it only works well with Sonnet 3.7.
- atonse 1y ago
  Is there a good way to replicate cursor tab in VS code? I don’t mean the interaction model, but how accurate it is. What model does Cursor use? It’s quite good AND fast.
  - fintechie 1y ago
    https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby https://github.com/TabbyML/tabby

jitbit 1y ago

So they make "building your own Cursor" easier. But at the same time they ban your fork from using Extension Marketplace. For context: last month they banned Cursor and all other forks from using C++, C# Dev Kit, Python and other extensions. Guess this was preparation for this move.

rpozarickij 1y ago

I wonder whether they have plans to open source the JetBrains Copilot extension as well. It feels like it's receiving much less attention than the VS Code extension (which is understandable).