Chris Wiegman

Turning off CoPilot in VSCode

VS Code enables a feature in version 1.95 that shows up as a little icon next to the title bar:

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It doesn’t do much to start except for trying to get you to install GitHub’s CoPilot extension:

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It’s annoying, but really easy to remove. Simply add the following to your VS Code settings and the icon will disappear:

{
  ...
  "chat.commandCenter.enabled": false,
  ...
}

That’s it. No more annoying icon wasting space in your editor.