Hide AI features in VS Code
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These days I am mainly using Claude Code or Codex CLI from inside VS Code for coding, and GitHub is sometimes too pushy towards using Copilot. I wanted to disable all AI features inside the IDE, and found a quick solution to do that:
As you can see in the screenshot here, you can just go to Settings, search for @id:chat.disableAIFeatures, and then check the checkbox to turn it off. Now, it doesn't automatically open or show the sidebar AI chat when I open VS Code.
If you want additional AI related settings, just search for ai and you will find other settings that you can control.
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