I’ve been using GitHub Copilot for 3 years now and one thing I keep getting frustrated with is how intrusive and annoying the inline suggestions can be.
More often than not, you don’t even have the time to think about the feature before Copilot is throwing snippets of code that sometimes don’t fit your business logic.
Naturally, as a developer, I wanted to create my own extension or find one in the VSCode marketplace, but who would believe that GitHub Copilot just released an update today (version 0.31 from 2025-09-10) to do just that?
The Solution: A Configurable Delay
To add a delay to GitHub Copilot, add this line to your settings.json:
"editor.inlineSuggest.minShowDelay": 10000 // maximum seems to be 15 seconds
Unfortunately, there’s a hard limit of 15 seconds, but that’s still far better than before and you now have more time to mess things up yourself!
This simple configuration is a nice addition from the Github Copilot team and I hope we can have more features to keep AI as a copilot while still being able to get help when we are stuck.