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VS Code Copilot
AI coding assistant that suggests code and answers questions within VS Code
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Pricing
Paid
Learning curve
Easy
Time to value
Immediate
BEST FORSoloSmall TeamGrowing Business
COMMUNITY SENTIMENT
PositiveNegative
WORKS FOR

AI-assisted development as part of the daily engineering stack, using the integrated terminal and chat panel for coding tasks, managing notes and workflows within the primary development environment

KEY INSIGHT

It dramatically reduces syntax friction but can create significant architectural and code review debt that managers often overlook.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

Writing large, maintainable applications due to generated code quality, tasks requiring fast startup speed compared to lightweight editors

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Community Reviews

Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & AlignAI members

WORKED

I can also interact with the same session, at the same time, from VS Code, the TUI, or the API. Different modalities are ideal for different tasks (e.g. VS Code multi-diff for code review edits).

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Interacting with the agent session for tasks like multi-diff code review edits.

WORKED

I use Copilot pretty much exclusively because it's our approved AI solution at the office.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: AI solution for work

WORKED

My primary IDE.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Primary IDE

WORKED

Created 'NotionKeys for Markdown: A VS Code extension that brings Notion-style commands for Markdown editing.'

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Developing a Notion-style Markdown editing extension

MIXED

VS code also falls into this category by the way, albeit less severe.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General coding/editing

WORKED

the same way VS Code, VIM, or whatever is your preferred code editor is familiar.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Code editor mentioned as a familiar system for developers, analogous to WordPress for end-users.

MIXED

I use the CLI in VS Code, and I use the chat panel... the only thing that seems to actually make a difference is the context engineering stuff.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Integrated terminal and chat panel for AI coding tools

FAILED

They are slow, laggy, difficult to use and don’t respond quickly to the Window manager.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Code editing

WORKED

It's available as a plugin for VS Code.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Non-linear undo via plugin

WORKED

The world should be accessible from my IDE, and if I were them that’s where I’d really focus: a bi-directional sync and a first class VS Code plugin.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Primary development environment (IDE)

WORKED

Pilot makes it ridiculously easy to pay your international team members... they also beat TW in currency pricing all day.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Paying international team members, handling payroll, benefits, and compliance.

FAILED

I got tired of babysitting Claude Code, Copilot... You kick off a long task... and come back to find it's been stuck on a y/n prompt for 20 minutes.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Running long AI coding tasks/agents

MIXED

If you already live in VS Code, maybe you like to manage your notes there too? The motivation was simple: most developers already take notes, but the friction of switching to another app means those notes slowly drift into neglect.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Primary development environment and editor

MIXED

Hard requirement: you are already shipping software with AI coding tools daily (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar).

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Daily shipping of software, as a core AI coding tool.

WORKED

I use... vs code... Most of that works just fine just as it did on previous versions of the OS.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Development

WORKED

I just want my tool to be easy to use and work. I want a phone, editor, and car that are easy to use and 'just work.'

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General development as an easy-to-use editor

WORKED

AI-assisted dev tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code). Benefits: Access to the latest AI tools and models with unlimited usage to help you do your best work.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: AI-assisted development as part of their engineering stack

FAILED

I have tried and they generated crap that's unmaintainable long term. Did you succeed writing a big app with these tools? I did not but maybe it's possible?

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Writing a large, maintainable application

WORKED

Then I will ssh via vs code or regular ssh which forwards my ssh key from 1password.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: SSH-ing into systems for development work

MIXED

I recent switched from vs code copilot to open code and I kinda miss it.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: AI-assisted coding in VS Code

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