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.

If Python is not working in Visual Studio Code Terminal, you receive Python is not recognized, or the script fails to execute, follow these solutions.

OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 is rolling out in GitHub Copilot, bringing stronger reasoning, better coding accuracy, and improved support for complex tasks.

GitHub Copilot has added OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 coding model, bringing improvements to reasoning and multi step development tasks.

Zed, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor all offer some advantages over VS Code, at least for now. Zed and Cursor stand apart. Microsoft's new all-in-one data-science pack for Python in VS Code ...

Once I had Clairvoyance up and running, I asked it to perform a code review of WinUIpad and, over time, fix all the issues.

The new release allows using experimental agent plug-ins and the new Agent Debug Panel offers detailed insights into chat ...

Orca has discovered a supply chain attack that abuses GitHub Issue to take over Copilot when launching a Codespace from that ...

AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market The Open VSX registry, used for installing extensions in editors compatible with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), will ...

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