Microsoft quietly kills IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot
32 points by abareplace
32 points by abareplace
Apparently IntelliCode is different from IntelliSense and IntelliSense is not going away at all.
It is possible that IntelliCode, by relying on local GPT models, just wasn't very good on people's computers and maybe even got bad rap for doing a CPU inference if people didn't have the right hardware.
TIL about GPT-C, the little language model powering IntelliCode (~380M params)
Are there any other good local models for coding, especially open-source ones? I would prefer a local model for privacy reasons. Thanks
As a heads-up: this is has nothing to do with IntelliSense, autocompletion is obviously not going away. IntelliCode is a separate extension, so this doesn't really have anything to do with VSCode itself.
...Since when did we have a vscode tag?
According to the moderation log, pushcx created the vscode tag on 2024-11-12, the same date he created the editors tag. That was eight months after Tag proposal: editors, the most recent proposal for the editors tag.
I didn’t find any past proposals that VS Code get its own tag. The closest I found was Is it time for an editors tag? from 2023-04-04, in which the author used Visual Studio Code submissions as an example of a class of stories that would deserve the editors tag.
I was surprised too, given how much gnashing of teeth there is around adding a new tag today (for good reason).
Maybe added by jcs at the beginning of the site with the vim and emacs tags? Probably misguided since there's a huge cult around those two and endless content to go around, but not the same for vscode.
(We do retire tags, don't we? There's probably a case for retiring this one.)
"I close my eyes Only for a moment, and the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity"
On a serious note, I've been using Emacs while watching fashions change ... SlickEdit, Sublime, Atom, VS Code, ... I wonder what the next one will be?