[colechristensen]

>Why should VS Code have to support alternative AI assistants in their software?

Because of the dominant position of Microsoft in various markets.

[Ar-Curunir]

I’m no fan of MS, but how are they leveraging their dominance in, say, OS to create dominance in editors? AFAIK it’s not like VS code is bundled with Windows.

[Mountain_Skies]

Does Microsoft have a monopoly (or large enough market share) on text editors?

[colechristensen]

It's hard to find a good answer here but there's some strong indication that Microsoft is pretty dominant with code editors.