Swyx demos a vibe-coded internal scheduling app for his AI Engineer conference at Microsoft Build.
“It's basically sort of a binpacking problem where we have all these open slots.”
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Microsoft Build day two hosts recap logistics and tease sessions including a VS Code AI adoption talk.
“Anthony built a programming language in 10 minutes because that's what you can do now.”
Agent skills are a standardized way to give AI agents new capabilities and expertise.
“they're basically a standardized way to give AI agents new capabilities and expertise”
Microsoft shipped the Copilot SDK 1.0 stable (GA), letting developers run its agent harness in production.
“Just yesterday 1.0 stable.”
GitHub Copilot CLI's agent loop now powers the SDK, CLI, and a new GitHub app across Microsoft and GitHub.
“We build the core agent loop uh that powers the Copilot CLI and the SDK and increasingly all of the agents across, you know, Microsoft and GitHub.”
Microsoft's MVP program recognizes 4,000+ community leaders across 96 countries for sharing technical knowledge.
“the MVP award is Microsoft's way of saying thank you to the people that give back in the community sharing their knowledge freely and openly”
Xoople builds an Earth data infrastructure layer enabling AI to reason about physical-world assets, scaled on Anyscale on Azure.
“earth data infrastructure layer built specifically for uh the uh era of AI”
Microsoft announced Azure HorizonDB, a new Postgres service in public preview at Build.
“what we're trying to do with Horizon DB is really serve a very large market by bringing a bunch of new AI capabilities and developercentric tooling in VS Code”
Microsoft Foundry's Hosted Agents, now in preview, runs your bring-your-own agent code at cloud scale.
“You can write that code, test it out locally, and then in hosted agents, we will go run it for you.”
Microsoft Foundry's Toolbox addresses authentication, tool sprawl, and governance as agent tool usage scales.
“the token usage context window got blown up really easily and quickly”
Microsoft Foundry's agent platform unifies tracing, evaluation, and optimization to test non-deterministic AI agents end-to-end.
“The properties that makes agents so useful like they're stateful, they they're long horizon, they can plan, they can course correct, they interact with their environment through tools are also the ones that makes it very hard to test.”
The defining trait of every great founder is extreme focus on their own work.
“It's like mute the world and then build your own.”
GitHub introduces a Copilot app to unify scattered agent workflows from issue to merge.
“But we're talking about the GitHub Copilot app.”
TypeScript adds type syntax, a type checker, and a compiler to make large JavaScript apps safer and more maintainable.
“TypeScript was a way to take JavaScript and add syntax for types, and add a type checker and a compiler so that you could bring all the modern features that you know and love today.”
Microsoft introduces four 'IQs'—Web, Foundry, Fabric, and Work—to ground agents in web knowledge, unstructured data, structured data, and M365 context.
“Foundry IQ is an agentic retrieval mechanism that allows your agents to do that kind of agentic retrieval rather than simple old-fashioned rag that's existed for like 3 years.”
Google published a monthly roundup teaser of its May 2026 AI announcements with no specific details.
Sponsor promo spotlighting Anthropic coding agents in Microsoft Foundry and Oracle infrastructure.
“Explore how Enthropic extends coding agents across your team with Cloud Code and co-work in Microsoft Foundry.”
Fireworks AI's open-weight model inference is now available inside Microsoft's Azure Foundry.
“We process more than 30 trillion tokens per day.”
Intel touts its Microsoft partnership, 100M+ AI PCs, and TDX confidential computing in Azure at Build.
“Intel has developed a technology called TDX which enables confidential computing in Azure.”
NVIDIA integrates Nemotron and a Hermes agent with hosted agents on Microsoft platform for customizable agentic deployments.
“Neotron comes in with the high intelligence open-source um high capability model that brings that strong intelligence to the to the table and then Hermes agent wraps it all up and helps orchestrate your models”
Sponsor promo for Elastic and Arm encouraging use of Microsoft Foundry, semantic kernel, and Windows on ARM for AI apps.
“Sponsors make more possible.”
Microsoft adds Web IQ to its IQ family, letting agents reason across all intelligence domains.
“we try to make sure that Claude is able to operate wherever the customer wants Claude.”
Qualcomm and Microsoft tout partnership for context-aware AI agents across devices from ring to data center.
“this is the age of AI agents”
Legal AI startup Legora reached $100M ARR within 18 months of Y Combinator.
“for an actor to go and stand behind an AI company is a quite big stance in the market”