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# Set up CodeGPT in Visual Studio Code

**[asayer](https://daily.dev/sources/asayer)** · 6 min read · 554 upvotes · 56 comments

## Summary

CodeGPT is a Visual Studio code extension that allows you to use the GPT-3 model to generate, explain, refactor, and document code snippets. This post provides instructions on how to install and configure CodeGPT in Visual Studio Code, and showcases its capabilities in generating, explaining, refactoring, and writing unit tests for code snippets.

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daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://blog.openreplay.com/set-up-codegpt-in-visual-studio-code/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@derhermann** · 11 upvotes

> I wonder what differences CodeGPT has from GitHub Copilot

**@christianfreitag** · 3 upvotes

> ~Create a comment for a post about the CodeGPT: a chatGPT for Visual Code:
>
> 🤖Sure: ( . . ) Nice post :)

**@faisal2n** · 2 upvotes

> CodeGPT is one of the best Visual Studio code extensions

**@onatm** · 1 upvotes

> What's the value of CodeGPT over Github co-pilot? Is it the pay-as-you-go model of OpenAI?
>
> Also, this seems like an ad for the website itself.

**@diegoramiro25** · 1 upvotes

> Interesting, but thats better or worse than copilot ?

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