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I love Copilot in VSCode. I always select model "Claude Sonnet 3.7", when in Copilot since it lets me choose the LLM. What I love about Copilot is the tight integration with VSCode. I can just ask it to do something and it relies on the intelligence of Claude to get the right code generated, and then all Copilot is really doing is editing my code for me, reading whatever code Claude tells it to, to build context, etc.

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That's a different, more useable copilot.

That's why I said "in VSCode" because I have no idea what this guy is running, but it's almost a certainty the problem isn't copilot but it's a bad LLM and/or his bad prompt.

The Copilot integrated with Microsoft 365 doesn’t have a model switcher it just is what it is. You are talking about a completely different product that Microsoft calls the same names.

I'll say it for the third time: "in VSCode". There's no ambiguity about which Copilot that is.

VSCode Copilot or Copilot Chat?

imo, any VSCode user needs both extensions: "GitHub Copilot" for inline completions, and "GitHub Copilot Chat" for interactive, multi-turn coding chat/agent.

This discussion isnt about that all, completely unrelated. It's talking about a chatbot.

And "GitHub Copilot Chat" VSCode extension is _also_ a chatbot.

But it's not Microsoft 365 copilot

--OR-- I mentioned a Copilot Product in a conversation about Copilot Products.

Claude Sonnet 3.7 is my default as well in Visual Studio. i have been playing with their new default GPT-4.1. its not bad.

I haven't tried GPT-4.1 yet in VSCode Copilot. I was using 'Claude Sonnet 4' until it was struggling on something yesterday which 3.7 seemed to easily do. So I reverted back to 3.7. I'm not so sure Sonnet 4 was a step forward in coding. It might be a step back.

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