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.

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Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

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Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

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Claude Code adds native worktree support for parallel branches; needs Git init and one commit, clearer task isolation results ...

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GitHub is making Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI’s Codex AI coding agents directly available inside GitHub today. A new public preview adds Claude and Codex to GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio ...