Published 2025-10-16.
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llm collection.
Perhaps you have noticed the articles discussing why nobody wants to use Microsoft’s shoddy AI product This article is about my experience. It is true, Microsoft is adding AI features without user-evident benefits. They are mining user activity heavily, however.
GitHub Copilot is very stingy with free requests. Very little opportunity is provided to evaluate this package.
GitHub Copilot works in native Windows, not WSL,
so it requires uvx to be installed in native Windows.
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:
Yes, I did want to stop the madness.
