Microsoft Open Sources Copilot

[silverwind]

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

[denysvitali]

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]

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

[behnamoh]

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.

[rpozarickij]

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).

[Grimeton]

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.

[jitbit]

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.

[jeroen79]

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

[madduci]

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