CodeGeeX The Most UNDERRATED VSCode AI Coding Assistant – Better Than GitHub Copilot & Claude
Jul 22, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video I'll show you a AI
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platform similar to GitHub copilot. Uh
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this uh plug-in allows you to understand
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it's a program assistant tool. It's
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called as code geeks c o d e ge x. It's
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a Chinese website. It's also available
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in English as well. Originally it's a
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Chinese kind of a AI assistant similar
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to GitHub copilot and it has all the
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extensions available for all the editors
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VS code PyCharm web studio Android
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Studio. So this is actually the
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platform. So if you just go to Google
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just type here code
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geeks
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AI. So this will be the platform which
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comes right here. It's also on GitHub as
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well. So you can check out there.
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So now if you go to installation simply
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go to extensions and just type in the
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extensions tab which is code geeks. So
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as you write this now this extension
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will come right here.
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It's almost having 1 million installs.
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So it's a AI powered coding assistant
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which can suggest code.
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So
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just click the install button to
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activate this plug-in. So once you
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activate this plug-in in the sidebar
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section, this will show.
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So just wait for the installation to
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complete. So,
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so just accept the s uh terms and
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conditions and then login
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uh with uh just click open.
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So here you can login with your Google
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account. So click on login.
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So just today it's this website is in
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Chinese. So just if you are not Chinese
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user you can turn on the Google
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translate. So as soon as you do this you
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will be automatically logged in. So now
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you can open your VS code. So right in
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the sidebar section this icon will show
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code geeks and simply activate this. So
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once you activate this you will have
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this chat prompt and one problem is that
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in Chinese here you can see you can use
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all the models AI models. So you are
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using the anthropic claude for sonet
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model. They also have their own pro
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model as well.
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So I can generate here any code here. So
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I will say build a
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I can open a file right here. Just
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attach open a file right here. You can
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even attach files as well.
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So just select whatever file that you
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want to attach.
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So I attach this. So here I will say
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build a simple image to PDF web app and
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browser.
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So as soon as you do this guys, you will
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see it will try to generate the file for
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you automatically the source code.
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So
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it will automatically insert this and uh
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send you can see that.
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So it is you can see automatically it is
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doing it the job here. After you can run
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this application
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once the application is generated. So
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you can see it created a simple image to
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PDF application.
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So image to PDM. So you can see
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instantly this is the application that
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it generated. So we can ask you to as
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well you can attach the file here. Just
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reference the file whatever file. So
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it's completely free to use guys. You
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can see we are using the latest cloud 4
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model. Please uh modify the source code
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and just write inside the file.
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Make a scientific
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calculator
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in simple file. Just write the code
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inside the file.
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If you just give the instructions here,
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it will try to automatically
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build out the scientific calculator.
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Please automatically.
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So as you can see the speed here it is
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automatically
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suggesting the source code. So this is
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the AI coding assistant. So if you go to
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any file it can even suggest you th some
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things as well. So if you just open
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just write this.
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So as you can see it is just need to
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press the tab key to accept the
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suggestions. So just require.
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So as you can see it is uh suggesting
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me. So I will simply press the tab key
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and after that as you write again it is
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suggesting you you can see.
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So in this easy way guys you can use
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this extension. It's very good extension
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and it's completely free to use. As you
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can see it's having almost 1 million
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installs. So it's similar to GitHub
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copilot but the thing about this
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extension is that it doesn't cost you
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money as opposed to GitHub copilot. So
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as you can I basically suggested all the
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features right here. So it basically
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suggest you suggestions right here.
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You can see
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it can be in any language. Here you can
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see as I'm writing the code here it is
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suggesting me.
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So definitely install this extension
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guys, code geeks AI coding assistant and
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thank you very much for watching this
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video and also check out my website
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freemediattools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools.
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