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AI · July 10, 2022

Find Snippets from Stackoverflow for VSCode

Extension for Visual Studio Code - Code faster with AI, or find snippets from StackOverflow, Gist

Find Snippets from Stackoverflow for VSCode launched on July 10, 2022 with 8 votes, #921 of 2,916 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

This feature is somewhat similar to Github Copilot's code suggestion. But instead of using AI, it sends your search query to Google, then retrieves StackOverflow and Github Gist answers and autocompletes them for you. Captain Stack provides Code Search (from Github Gist, StackOverflow), and AI Code Generation (with OpenAI and OpenRouter). With multiple options can be enabled at the same time. To generate/search code, use // find {what you need}. . For example: // find binary search in JavaScript. // generate binary search function in Python. Note: Feel free to open a thread for feedback or discussion. And havefrom marketplace.visualstudio.com

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