diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index fb32e2f..dd70f94 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -230,19 +230,3 @@
 
 add_executable (getvideo src/getvideo_main.cpp)
 target_link_libraries (getvideo pthread)
-
-# Visual Studio Code helper this needs to be at the end to make sure all
-# includes are handled correctly
-include (CMakeExtraGeneratorDetermineCompilerMacrosAndIncludeDirs)
-get_property (
-    C_INCLUDE_DIRS
-    DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
-    PROPERTY INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
-)
-
-execute_process (
-    COMMAND
-        python3 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/prime_vscode_compile_db.py
-        ${C_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${CMAKE_EXTRA_GENERATOR_C_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRS}
-        ${CMAKE_EXTRA_GENERATOR_CXX_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRS}
-)
diff --git a/scripts/prime_vscode_compile_db.py b/scripts/prime_vscode_compile_db.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 82ce977..0000000
--- a/scripts/prime_vscode_compile_db.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/python3
-
-import json
-import shlex
-import os
-import sys
-
-SCRIPT_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
-VS_CODE_FILE = os.path.join(SCRIPT_DIR, "../.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json")
-
-def main():
-    """ Main function"""
-    if os.path.exists(VS_CODE_FILE):
-        unique_includes = list(set(sys.argv[1:]))
-
-        print("Adding {} includes to c_cpp_properties.json".format(len(unique_includes)))
-        with open(VS_CODE_FILE) as vscodefile:
-            vscode_data = json.load(vscodefile)
-
-        for config in vscode_data["configurations"]:
-            if config["name"] in "Linux":
-                config["includePath"] = unique_includes
-
-
-        with open(VS_CODE_FILE, 'w') as vscodefile:
-            json.dump(vscode_data, vscodefile, sort_keys=True, indent=4)
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()