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.

Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

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.

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

Pixel Agents turns your AI coding agents into adorable sprite characters who work for you in an office, allowing you to keep tabs on what's going on at a glance.

Attackers used “technical assessment” projects with repeatable naming conventions to blend in cloning and build workflows, ...

While the Windows maker did not attribute the activity to a specific threat actor, the use of VS Code tasks and Vercel ...