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.

Tools such as Cursor can go a long way toward simplifying code setup. There's still a lot of work to refine the results. Conceiving an app's goals and how to get there is the hidden gotcha of AI ...

A new VS Code extension called Nogic visualizes codebases as interactive graphs and drew strong interest on Hacker News. Commenters praised the concept for understanding large or unfamiliar codebases, ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

What if the tools you’ve relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That’s the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and ...

Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes VS Code Version: 1.97/1.97 OS Version: MacOS Sequoia 15.3.1 Python type annotations are no longer highlighted correctly when using the ...

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