Failed to save file: Insufficient permissions. Select 'Retry as Admin' to retry as administrator

ow do I resolve the vs code Insufficient permission issue when saving a file

I've given appropriate permissions to code directory: chown -R me:staff my-app/

But when I open vscode and try to save a file it says "Insufficient permissions, Retry as admin"

If I launch vscode with sudo from cmd line sudo code . then I dont get that error but then the autocompletion extensions dont seem to work