Yeah, running locally would be my preference. I get "Antitrust (2001)" vibes from this, but that's the tinfoil hat side of me.

Like this?

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/services/intellicode/

I bet it's the same people, trying to push their crap into all sorts of successful products.

The IntelliCode and Copilot teams have been collaborating closely together, since we want them to provide a "better together" experience. However, the underlying tech isn't the same. Copilot is powered by OpenAI Codex, and enables rich code synthesis via a cloud service. Whereas IntelliCode uses multiple local models, to enhance various parts of the editor (e.g. prioritizing the completion list based on your context, detecting "repeated edits" and suggesting additional refactorings).

As far as I know that also runs remotely.

Edit: looks like I remembered incorrectly: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/intellicode/ov...

> No user-defined code is sent to Microsoft

There is Tabnine that can work like this

Last time I tried Tabnine it wasn't really of much use to me, the top of the line GPT-3 is a much much bigger model, it should be able to do much more intelligent things.

But gpt 3 won't run locally, so no thank you.

Like an IDE?

Yeah but smart.