[jorgeoguerra]

Positron is solid, but we think our search and apply-edit is better at the moment and we think more people use RStudio right now.

Practically, Positron also requires you to use your own LLM keys (so you're on the hook for the tokens/long context, and if you don't have a BAA or ZDR, you may not be able to use it with sensitive data). For Rao, we manage the tokens and are moving quickly towards HIPAA/SOC 2.

We also plan to develop something similar to Positron in the future.

[jmcphers]

Positron Assistant will eventually support models other than BYOK, including connecting to models in Bedrock, local models, hosted models in Copilot, etc.

Also note that Positron perma-unlocks the internal APIs that Microsoft Copilot Chat uses, so any extension can use them. "Positron Assistant" is itself mostly implemented as an extension. So it's possible for a 3rd party extension to become a chat participant in Positron or integrate with the Chat panel/inline chat/etc.