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Several months ago we examined the “Top 10 AI Extensions for Visual Studio Code,” tools in the marketplace that featured the term “AI.” Microsoft has since then been pushing hard its copilot-themed AI assistants that are springing up all over its wares.
In fact, even Windows is getting a copilot, a term borrowed from the original GitHub Copilot “AI pair programmer” from Microsoft-owned GitHub. With the increasing importance of AI coding assistants, along with copilot functionality being infused into many software applications, this examination limits itself to extensions that mention or are tagged with the term “copilot.”
So here are the top 10 VS Code extensions ranked by the number of installs, excluding those that were featured in the companion March article. All are free except for one offered in a free trial.
Code GPT
CodeGPT: write and improve code using AI
ChatGPT: write and improve code using AI
- Installs: 73,891
- Publisher: Tim Kmecl
- Release Date: 12/7/2022
- Last Updated: 4/11/2023
- Tagline: Use ChatGPT and GPT4 right inside the IDE to enhance and automate your coding with AI-powered assistance (unofficial)
- Description: This Visual Studio Code extension allows you to use the ChatGPT API to generate code or natural language responses from OpenAI’s ChatGPT or GPT4 to your questions, right within the editor. Supercharge your coding with AI-powered assistance! Automatically write new code from scratch, ask questions, get explanations, refactor code, find bugs and more 🚀✨
- Review: Average 4.1 score from 13 developers
- Documentation: Github Repository
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