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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    1 day ago

    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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      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.