I ditched Copilot on VS Code for this free extension, and it's miles ahead
The author shares their experience of switching from GitHub Copilot to the llama-vscode extension for VS Code. They find llama-vscode to be superior for their coding needs, particularly due to its local model capabilities and lack of subscription fees. The author expresses concerns about privacy and limitations associated with Copilot's cloud-based service.
- ▪The author relies on various essential extensions for programming tasks in VS Code.
- ▪Llama-vscode is highlighted as a better alternative to GitHub Copilot for the author's coding needs.
- ▪The author prefers llama-vscode due to its local model capabilities and concerns over Copilot's subscription fees and privacy issues.
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| Original publisher | XDA Developers |
| Canonical URL | https://www.xda-developers.com/i-ditched-copilot-for-this-free-vs-code-extension-and-its-miles-ahead/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 10:00:30 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T10:05:02.059Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T10:05:02.059Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 0RKlo6ljxW3O |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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