OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents

While OpenAI is bringing GPT-5.4 to its API and its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, it’s rolling out its reasoning model, ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code previews agent plugins

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks.

OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 clobbers humans on pro-level work in tests - by 83%

GPT-5.4 is also more reliable, producing 18% fewer errors and 33% fewer false claims than GPT-5.2, according to OpenAI.

Turn Claude Code Into a Design Tool with Pencil.dev

Pencil.dev turns Claude Code prompts into editable, Figma-like designs; it supports UI kits, CSS variables, and JSON files ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Navigating VS Code AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry for Agent Development

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...
NPR

Leah Donnella

Leah Donnella is an editor on NPR's Code Switch team, where she helps produce and edit for the Code Switch podcast, blog, and newsletter. She created the "Ask Code Switch" series, where members of the ...