🛠️ VS Code features that would have saved you last week An efficient tour of underrated VS Code features that save time every single week, from sticky scroll and timeline view to port forwarding and the merge editor. 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/eFRVxNyc
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Do you know you can bring your own key in Visual Studio Code with GitHub Copilot? You are no longer stuck with the subscription only models... #copilot #ai #developer
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🚀 What we learned shipping VS Code weekly without breaking everything What it actually takes to ship weekly without quality falling apart, from agent sessions before meetings to automated triage and stronger quality harnesses. 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/eN5-i8eV
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The new VS Code release adds Mermaid diagram rendering directly in the Markdown preview. The Integrated Browser also now supports HTML file previews and drag-to-select for pulling multiple page elements into chat context. Also new: 🤖 The Agents window (Preview) runs agent sessions on a remote machine via SSH or dev tunnels, even after you close your laptop ⚙️ Configure which models handle commit messages and titles 📊 Prebuilt Grafana dashboard for agent observability via OpenTelemetry 📄 YAML frontmatter now renders as a table in the Markdown preview 🔗 Explore the weekly updates: https://aka.ms/VSCode/121 Happy coding! 💙
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⚡ Gemini 3.5 Flash is now available in Visual Studio Code. Give it a try!
📣 Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Early testing shows ➡️ It has strong tool use, fast response times, and high cache efficiency ➡️ It is it well-suited for fast, iterative agentic coding workflows Try it out in Visual Studio Code. ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gMCuZ5wE
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🛠️ Custom instructions are more powerful than they seem. They help teams turn standards and shared practices into always-on context for Copilot. That means agents work the way your team works from the get-go. So, you spend less time reviewing and course-correcting. If you want to get more value from AI in day-to-day development, read the new issue of the VS Code Newsletter 📩 Happy coding!
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🚀 Remote control for GitHub Copilot CLI and Visual Studio Code sessions is now generally available. Monitor progress, approve actions, and respond to prompts from anywhere. Give it a try!
Start work on your computer, continue your local session anywhere. 📲 Remote control for GitHub Copilot CLI and Visual Studio Code sessions is now generally available. https://lnkd.in/g_kv34-M
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🤖 Multi-agent patterns in VS Code you won't learn from docs Using one agent is straightforward. This session gets into how to split work across several, when to fork or delegate, and how to keep quality high. 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/eBCBvtz8
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🖥️ Risk assessment for terminal commands VS Code now shows a risk badge before you confirm a command, with an AI-generated explanation of what it actually does. 🟢 Safe: reads files or prints output, no changes made. 🟠 Caution: modifies your workspace, installs packages, or sends data over the network. 🔴 Review carefully: may be difficult or impossible to undo. To enable this experimental feature, open your settings and search for chat.tools.riskAssessment.enabled
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🧠 The conversation around AI for developers usually starts with the model. But inside VS Code, what really shapes the experience is the coding harness: the layer responsible for context, tool calling, agent loops, terminal execution, memory, and more. In this new post, the engineering team dives into how GitHub Copilot in VS Code works behind the scenes.