Microsoft Open Sources Copilot

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/05/19/openSourceAIEditor

by riejo • 1 year ago

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Grimeton• 1 year 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.

jeroen79• 1 year ago

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

madduci• 1 year ago

Right? I have to dodge the suggestions every time I want to use the Tab button.

tomtom1337• 1 year ago

Turn it off?

silverwind• 1 year ago

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

denysvitali• 1 year 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• 1 year ago

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

behnamoh2• 1 year 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• 1 year 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?

atonse• 1 year 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.

jitbit• 1 year 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• 1 year 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).

Microsoft Open Sources Copilot

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