Published 2025-10-16.
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GitHub Copilot is very stingy with free requests. Very little opportunity is provided to evaluate this package.

However, I note that it works in native Windows, not WSL, so it requires uvx to be installed in native Windows. All my work setting up WSL would be for naught if I used GitHub Copilot.

Rejected.

Update: Two weeks after I installed this extension, I had not used it more than 5 minutes. However, the Visual Studio Code Developer Tools console had this message: console.ts:137 [Extension Host] [FileSystemService] file:///home/mslinn/.vscode-server/data/User/globalStorage/github.copilot-chat/commandEmbeddings.json is a LARGE file (33MB > 5MB) gbs @ console.ts:137.

I opened the file with less, and noticed that everytime I did anything in Visual Studio Code, several floating point numbers were written to that file.

I decided to disable the extension. When I did so, I saw:

Cannot disable 'GitHub Copilot Chat' extension alone. 'Copilot MCP', 'GitHub Copilot app modernization' and other extensions depend on this. Do you want to disable all these extensions?

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Yes, I did want to stop the madness.

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