A developer outlines a personal agentic coding setup as of July 2026, using a disposable Linux VM on an always-on home desktop with Tailscale for seamless remote access and session handoff. The setup …
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.129 on July 15, introducing a dedicated agent host that runs agent harnesses like Claude, Copilot, and Codex via the Agent Host Protocol, enabling sessions to p…
GitHub began rolling out Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash to Copilot on July 21, 2026, covering paid individual and business plans across major editors, the CLI, the cloud agent and the Copilot app. Business…
Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash model is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, offering improved task-completion rates and token efficiency over Gemini 3.5 Flash for coding and agentic workflows. The model, bi…
Microsoft is prioritizing AI and agent features in Visual Studio Code, with nearly every new feature in recent releases focused on AI, according to a developer complaint. The author argues that VS Cod…
Visual Studio Code's 1.129 release introduces a dedicated agent host process that runs AI coding agents such as Copilot, Claude, and Codex via the Agent Host Protocol, isolating each session in its ow…
A developer created Moji, an open-source desktop application that opens Markdown files with the same convenience as PDFs, rendering them immediately without requiring a code editor. The tool, availabl…
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code 1.128, released July 8, adds support for multi-chat agent sessions using Anthropic Claude agents, enabling users to compare approaches, branch from earlier turns, and ru…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family, including Sol, Terra, and Luna variants, is now available in GitHub Copilot, offering different levels of reasoning and cost efficiency for coding tasks. The models are rollin…
A study from the Alan Turing Institute reveals that safety testing for coding agents like GitHub Copilot is inadequate because it evaluates individual responses to harmful prompts rather than the agen…
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code received June 2026 updates including generally available agentic browser tools, parallel sessions, cost visibility, Marketplace model discovery, and improved Autop…
Microsoft clarified in a September 2025 .NET Blog post that GitHub Copilot's repository-wide copilot-instructions.md files apply automatically to every request, while *.prompt.md files are reusable, t…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code is now generally available in GitHub Copilot, becoming the first open-weight model selectable in the Copilot model picker. GitHub hosts the model on Microsoft Azure, rolli…
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.127, improving tools for AI agents with generally available browser tools and per-site permissions. The update also introduces session organization and subagent…
GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers with enterprise managed users can now access Copilot agent session data in public preview, including prompts, responses, and tool calls, via a streaming endpoint or R…
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, a new Sonnet-class model with strong coding performance, is now generally available for GitHub Copilot. The model excels in CLI-style tasks and offers competitive latency,…
Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server, giving AI assistants like GitHub Copilot direct access to MSBuild (.binlog) files for natural language build investigation. The server, currently …
A senior editor asked Claude to build a real software tool in one evening, and the AI wrote the entire program — including design, code, tests, and a test-image script — while the human made decisions…
X launched official hosted Model Context Protocol servers, giving AI agents direct access to over 200 API endpoints without local setup. The primary server at api.x.com/mcp enables real-time data acce…
GitHub Copilot is rolling out a preview of Claude Opus 4.8 (fast mode), offering faster output token speeds while maintaining the same intelligence as the standard model. The fast mode is available at…