VS Code used AI agents to shift from monthly to weekly releases for 50M+ users.
“thanks to AI, we've moved from a monthly to a weekly release cycle”
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10 tracked signals on vs-code.
Microsoft is building AI agents into Visual Studio and VS Code, including skill creation and a multi-harness agents window.
“I'm using the agent's window to build the agent's window.”
GitHub Copilot's agentic workflows have fundamentally shifted VS Code from local software to AI-backed service architecture
“the product is not just the client software that is installed and runs on your local machine, but it's actually hitting a service that supports the intelligence behind GitHub Copilot”
Microsoft is expanding its Postgres developer tooling beyond VS Code to support Cursor IDE and emerging AI agent workflows.
“development isn't just happening in editors anymore. The work is moving into new terminals with AI-driven tools, and our goal remains the same. We want to meet developers where they are.”
Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit integrates GitHub Copilot in VS Code to write, test, and run quantum code from natural language.
“In a few minutes, I had Copilot write some quantum code starting from the simple image of a circuit, refactor it, test it, explain some of the algorithm to me, explain some other quantum concepts, fix a bug, run a simulation, connect to the service, submit the job, and fetch the results. All without me writing a single line of code.”
Microsoft says open source is now at the kernel and core of how it builds and delivers products today.
“And so open source is now literally at the kernel at the core of Microsoft today.”
A startup founder shares a four-phase framework for shipping products end-to-end using AI tools like Copilot and VS Code.
“build for a problem you have for yourself”
Open source is now at the kernel and core of Microsoft, foundational to the products it ships today.
“open source is now literally at the kernel at the core of Microsoft today”
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.”
VS Code team to share its internal AI adoption story in a Build day 2 breakout session.
“It's like literally like our team uses AI now. Okay, now what?”