Comment on VS Code: Open Source AI Editor

• RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  At least the spying vector is open.

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• ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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