--- title: Dear Microsoft: Stop sticking your AI in my IDE | daily.dev description: A developer expresses frustration with Microsoft's aggressive push to make VS Code an AI-first 'agentic development environment.' Recent VS Code releases... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/dear-microsoft-stop-sticking-your-ai-in-my-ide-qvjgse1bb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Dear Microsoft: Stop sticking your AI in my IDE | daily.dev og:description: A developer expresses frustration with Microsoft's aggressive push to make VS Code an AI-first 'agentic development environment.' 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The author questions whether native AI integration serves developers or primarily serves as a distribution channel for GitHub Copilot. They predict a future reckoning where smaller, locally-hosted models make bloated native AI IDE features obsolete, and expect these features will eventually be moved back to extensions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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