Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.

In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

Claude Code has pulled ahead of OpenAI's Codex in VS Code Marketplace adoption metrics for tools tagged with 'agent,' just one way to judge these tools for your particular needs in this rapidly ...

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

Attackers used “technical assessment” projects with repeatable naming conventions to blend in cloning and build workflows, retrieving loader scripts from remote infrastructure, and minimizing on-disk ...

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Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...

In November 2025, Anthropic, the Amazon and Google-backed AI firm behind Claude, came out with a startling claim: a Chinese state-sponsored group was using its chatbot’s coding capabilities to execute ...