Visual Studio Magazine

Custom Agents Transform Visual Studio with Built-In and DIY Options

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.
PCMag

Sick of Babysitting Claude? 100K Coders Are Asking an Orc to Do It

Gary Sheng's Warcraft III-inspired tool brings playfulness to vibe coding. It's part of a bigger open-source movement shaping ...
InfoQ

OpenAI Codex-Spark Achieves Ultra-Fast Coding Speeds on Cerebras Hardware

In a major shift in its hardware strategy, OpenAI launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, its first production AI model deployed on ...

Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies

So, it appears the filter and posting ban has now passed, and Microsoft has resigned itself to its Microslop-based fate. "Did ...
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Copilot CLI Reaches General Availability, Bringing Agentic Coding to the Terminal

GitHub Copilot CLI is now generally available for all paid Copilot subscribers, offering agentic workflows, multiple AI model support, and specialized agents for terminal-based development.
PCMag

Inside 'Peon Ping,' the Warcraft III-Inspired AI Coding Tool I'm Obsessed With

Gary Sheng explains how he went from organizing dance parties to overseeing Peon Ping, a Claude plug-in with 100K+ users that ...
GitHub

Container Tools for Visual Studio Code

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...