Microsoft Deprecates IntelliCode in VS Code, Recommends Switch to GitHub Copilot (github.com)

Microsoft has begun deprecating the IntelliCode extension for Visual Studio Code and is directing users to migrate to GitHub Copilot. The company's archive of the IntelliCode repo and public guidance signals a consolidation of its in‑editor AI tooling: IntelliCode’s model-powered completions, signature help and code actions will no longer be the primary Microsoft-maintained path for AI-assisted coding in VS Code, and developers are being steered toward the Copilot extension for ongoing feature and security updates. For the AI/ML community this matters because it concentrates developer-facing model deployment and iteration under GitHub’s Copilot platform, which offers broader contextual completions, conversational/code‑search capabilities, and tighter integration with GitHub workflows — but is also a paid product with different telemetry and privacy implications. Practically, teams should plan migration (install Copilot, update CI/IDE settings, revisit license and data‑sharing policies) and re-evaluate any workflows built around IntelliCode’s lighter, locally cached behavior. For researchers and tooling providers the move narrows the active ecosystems for production IDE-model integration, possibly accelerating feature development around large-code models while reducing alternative, lighter-weight in‑editor model options.