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How Visual Studio Code does not have an even playing field when it comes to AI tooling.

Microsoft is breaking its open and extension-friendly ethos with VSCode in order to cripple GitHub Copilot competitors with restricted APIs.

I wouldn’t touch AI tooling with a ten-foot pole. Sooner or later, someone’s gonna get sued for copyright infringement because they plagiarized someone else’s code via Copilot, and I don’t wanna be that someone.

At least the way I use AI tooling, it would be very difficult to accidentally plagiarize code outside of boilerplate I guess. The way tools like GitHub Copilot are really useful is when using your existing code as “reference”, so if you use it to write a simple method, it’s only going to be restructuring your existing code.

In other words, Copilot is basically just meant to be used as really smart copy-paste.

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