The latest version of VS Code has some awesome updates, here are the ones I'm particularly happy about:

• GitHub Copilot Chat Extension
  • Chat with GitHub Copilot can include context about the workspace so you can ask questions about the code base
  • Ask for Terminal CLI command suggestions or for explanations of the command if there's an error
  • Generate commit messages! There are a lot of open source examples of how to do this with ChatGPT and other LLMs, it's nice to see it built into an extension
  • Now supports text-to-speech with the VS Code Speech extension
• Python extension
  • Pylint, mypy and flake8 support glob patterns for excluding files
  • Built-in linting and formatting is moved to the extensions. What's really neat is their suggestion to use the ruff extension. Ruff is a fast Rust-based linter and formatter for the Python programming language.