Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.133 on August 12, adding flexibility to Anthropic Claude sessions by allowing users to mix Anthropic and Copilot providers between turns, and introducing an exp…
GitHub has made Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash model available in GitHub Copilot, rolling out gradually to Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users. The model, billed at provider list pricing under u…
A software developer with 20 years of programming experience has decided to stop using AI-powered coding tools, citing negative impacts on the environment, society, and mental health. The developer, w…
Microsoft introduced MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5B active-parameter coding model designed for efficiency and integrated with GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code. The company reports up to 60% fewer tokens …
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, a small-tier coding model with native vision support, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, offering a 73% lower list price than its predecessor MAI-Code-1-Flash. The m…
Yeeth Security researchers identified a malicious Visual Studio Code extension named 'Solidity Pro' that targets cryptocurrency developers with a multi-stage attack, ultimately running independent Pyt…
Opencodex, a free open-source coding agent for Visual Studio Code, launched on the VS Code Marketplace, enabling users to run a Codex-style agent loop without an account or API key, with support for l…
GitHub Copilot, Google Antigravity, JetBrains Air, Kiro, Zed, and Zenflow are among the AI-powered development environments reshaping software creation, shifting developers' focus from writing code to…
GitHub Copilot's August 3 weekly releases, detailed in the official changelog on August 7, introduce five features that transform the tool into an agent orchestrator, including /btw for side chats tha…
Machine-learning engineer Santiago L. Valdarrama said he has stopped reading AI-generated code and predicted the integrated development environment (IDE) is 'on its way to the graveyard,' a claim base…
CleanSlate 1.0.2, an open-source coding agent that runs in the IDE, CLI, and SDK, has been released by TheWariend. The agent supports multiple AI providers and includes 59 tools, with builds signed an…
Visual Studio Code now runs Anthropic's Claude as a first-party coding agent, reusing the Claude Agent SDK and running it in a dedicated Agent Host process, allowing a single GitHub Copilot subscripti…
GitHub Copilot CLI, Microsoft's command-line AI agent, can automate C++ dependency management and project setup, as demonstrated in a Pure Virtual C++ 2026 session where it built a CMake-based CLI app…
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code released July 2026 updates (versions 1.127–1.131) featuring a redesigned Agents window with multi-chat support for Claude, generally available Copilot vision for i…
XAI's Grok 4.5 reasoning model is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, supporting up to 500,000 tokens and text/image inputs for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. The model is available t…
Cybersecurity researcher Migel Tissera said Cursor transferred 63,106 files totaling about 736 MB from his folders between July 18 and July 27, even though his paid subscription was canceled and codeb…
Anthropic's Claude Code, launched as a CLI in February 2025, became a developer phenomenon after a native VS Code extension was released on September 29, 2025, as part of Claude Code 2.0. By February …
Microsoft has unveiled a suite of new tools and updates for JavaScript developers, including improved support for Node.js in Azure Functions, a new JavaScript debugger for Visual Studio Code, and enha…
GitHub technologist Burke Holland argues that mastering the existing features of GitHub Copilot—the 'harness'—is more effective than chasing new AI tools or prompts. He recommends starting with the Gi…
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 …