Top 10 AI Extensions for Visual Studio Code

1. Codeium: AI Coding Autocomplete and Chat for Python, Javascript, Typescript, Java, Go, and more

Codeium is an AI-powered coding assistant that can help you save time and write better code. It can autocomplete your code, chat with you to generate code, and even translate code between different languages.

It also has features to help you with unit testing and refactoring your code.

2. Readable – AI-Generated Comments

Readable is a VScode extension that generates comments using GPT-3. It’s fast, reliable, consistent, and saves you loads of time. Using this extension you can Instantly generate detailed comments for your code using AI.

It supports various programming languages such as Javascript, TypeScript, Python, JSX/TSX, C, C#, C++, Java, and PHP.

3. Tabnine AI

Tabnine makes coding easier and faster with the world’s first AI code completion assistant. Tabnine combines the precision of personalization with the power of machine learning. They have a billion+ lines of trusted open-source code.

It is available as a plugin for popular code editors like Visual Studio Code, Sublime Text, and Atom, and can be used with many programming languages, including JavaScript, PHP, Python, C++, and Java.

4. Swimm AI

Swimm is a coding assistance tool that helps you understand complex and large code bases.

Use Cases:

• Document Creation.
• Workflow Organization.
• Automatic Generation of Code Snippet Explanations.

5.CodeGPT

Code GPT integrated with StackOverflow which allows you to get human answers to your questions and compare it with AI answers by right-clicking and selecting Ask StackOverflow from the drop-down menu.

6. BlackBox

This free AI extension allows enabling code completion in 20+ programming languages including Python, Java, C and C++, C#, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, Go, TypeScript, Kotlin, MATLAB,R, Swift, Rust, Ruby, Dart, Scala. You can search Repos and code without the need to leave IDE and find the results instantly.

7. Cody

Cody is an open-source AI coding assistant created by Sourcegraph. It uses Large Language Models with Sourcegraph’s Code Graph API to provide coding assistance.

Its chatbot can answer your technical questions right inside the VS Code. Cody also provides autocompletion as you type code in the editor.

8. DeepCode

We have finally reached the last extension for VScode and it is DeepCode. DeepCode is also an AI-powered code assistant that mainly focuses on bug fixing and saving you from critical vulnerabilities. It is available in multiple languages such as JavaScript, Java, Python, C, C++, and PHP. It alerts you about the critical code vulnerabilities in your code and as soon as you save the file it suggests bug fix solutions.

9. Bito

What if you had a chatbot right within your IDE? Say no more, because Bito makes it possible. Bito is built on ChatGPT and OpenAI and uses AI to generate and explain code, test cases, comments and assess code performance.

Besides being an AI bot, some other features of Bito include:
Explaining code, Performance checks, Security checks, and Improving readability.

10. IntelliCode

IntelliCode is a tool from the house of Microsoft that enables AI-assisted coding. This AI code completion tool received its training from the codes of half a million of GitHub’s open-source projects that have a minimum of 100 stars. Therefore, it can guide you with smarter suggestions considering the current code and context.