Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on May 29, 2026, introducing the ability to hand off chat sessions to a standalone Agents window and to add area screenshots as chat context from the integr…
GitHub has detailed the coding harness powering GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, a system that assembles context, exposes tools, and executes the agent loop to translate language model outputs in…
A reusable workflow has been released to help AI coding agents in VS Code conduct structured repository audits using the Awesome Copilot extension. The workflow guides agents to inspect a repository's…
Google announced the Google Pay & Wallet Developer MCP server, a new tool that allows AI assistants and IDEs to access real-time account data and API documentation for streamlined integrations. The se…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 model is now generally available for GitHub Copilot, offering improved code understanding and generation for complex problem-solving and large-codebase navigation. The mode…
Microsoft will release a new AI coding model next week, aligning with its Build 2026 developer conference scheduled for June 2-3. The announcement follows the company's aggressive iteration on develop…
Visual Studio Code released agent hooks, a deterministic feature that triggers shell commands at specific points during an agent session. A developer created a hook to automatically regenerate TypeScr…
Senior C#/.NET teams in 2026 are paying for both Cursor and JetBrains Rider rather than choosing between them, configuring the two tools to share state on the same codebase. Cursor excels at multi-fil…
This article presents a field-tested workflow for using AI effectively in production-grade, enterprise React codebases, moving beyond simple prompts to structured, agent-style sessions. The author adv…
Microsoft is canceling most Claude Code licenses for its developers and transitioning them to GitHub Copilot CLI by the end of June, citing a need to converge on a single command-line tool and reduce …
This article provides a step-by-step guide for developers to set up a private, offline AI coding assistant on a standard laptop (8GB or 16GB RAM) without a dedicated GPU. The setup uses Visual Studio …
On May 20, 2026, GitHub confirmed a significant security breach in which attackers exfiltrated nearly 4,000 internal repositories containing sensitive source code and development tools. The attack was…