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CodeGPT

Published 2025-10-19. Last modified 2025-10-21.
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CodeGPT features an AI assistant creator (or GPTs), an Agent Marketplace, a Copilot for software engineers, and an API for advanced solutions. The CodeGPT Visual Studio Code extension works with many models from many vendors. Including Claude Sonnet 4.5.

Shell
$ code --install-extension DanielSanMedium.dscodegpt

I had to give my GitHub email to Judin Labs to sign up and use the extension.

  1. To display the CodeGPT pane, I pressed CTRL+SHIFT+P, then typed codegpt.
  2. One of the choices that appeared was View show CodeGPT Chat, which I selected.
  3. CTRL+ALT+B revealed the alternate sidebar.
  4. Then I carefully clicked on the CodeGPT heading in the sidebar, and dragged it to the alternate (right) sidebar, where I prefer to chat.
  5. Clicking on the settings icon displayed the following:

Clicking on the person icon at the top right of the CodeGPT panel displayed this in my web browser:

😒

Ah, yet another money grab. A few days after installation, at 7:30 AM on a Sunday (ET) I saw an alert in Visual Studio saying that the CodeGPT servers were overloaded and that autocomplete might not work. The message urged me to upgrade to Pro; apparently only the free service was affected. That felt bogus, so I deleted the extension instead.

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