Nah it's been available in VS Code for a year or two in "beta".

Yes, but this is a new release including a bunch more languages, and thus I assume better functionality.

Used it for weeks internally, finally gave up after deciding it I more than once felt the day's use was a net productive loss even when working with internal Amazon packages (that it should have had a training advantage on vs copilot). Terrible UX and copilot really has just miles more intelligent suggestions.

Tried it for a bit this morning with the "newest" release and didn't immediately observe any improvement, though this is far from objective of course.

That's really helpful, thanks for sharing!