⚡ Building the new GitHub Copilot Inline Suggestions Model From completions to next edits, see how we brought inline suggestions together in one model. 📖 Read the full story: code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/0...

Building the new GitHub Copilot Inline Suggestions Model: Part One

Explore how GitHub Copilot unified completion, next edit, and long-distance suggestions into one model for a faster, more cohesive coding experience.

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🐾 The VS Code pet needs a name! Have you met your new coding companion? Open GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and enter /vscode-pet 💡 Submit your name ideas September 10 - 17, 2026 🏆 Winner: 1 month of GitHub Copilot Max ✨ Honorable mentions: VS Code swag 👉 Learn more: aka.ms/vscode-pet

The Story of VS Code | Official Trailer 🎥 Watch The Story of VS Code on Friday, September 4th at 8am PT on the VS Code YouTube channel. 👉🏽 Subscribe to the VS Code YouTube channel to be notified as soon as the documentary drops: aka.ms/the-story-of... #vscode #storyofvscode

🚀 Discover Agent Host in VS Code and see how your agent sessions persist across projects and run across multiple environments. From VS Code to the web and across machines, your sessions stay in sync wherever you work. 🧵 Check out the resources below 👇 youtu.be/k91ejc3G1YM?...

Agent Host: Your Sessions, Anywhere You Go

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🚀 The latest VS Code release brings more flexibility to Claude sessions and auto-reload for local HTML previews. 🧵 Here's what's new:

📣 Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot for VS Code! Try Kimi Moonshot's latest open-weight model for agentic coding, now hosted by Fireworks. 📖 Learn more: github.blog/changelog/20...

🚀Give agents visual feedback, dictate prompts in multiple languages, ask side questions, and review rendered Markdown diffs. 🧵 Here's what's new in the latest VS Code release:

🚀 See what your subagents are doing in real time, use built-in dictation across VS Code, and streamline docs with the hybrid Markdown editor. 🧵 Here's what's new in the latest VS Code release:

📣 Claude Opus 5 is now rolling out in VS Code. Give it a try! github.blog/changelog/20...

🚀 Spend less time on approvals, review changes faster, and get more insight into your chats. 🧵 Here's what's new in the latest VS Code release:

⚡ Prompt tuning made GPT-5.5 faster and more token-efficient in VS Code. Learn how we worked with OpenAI to validate prompt changes and improve the coding harness after launch. code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/0...

How Prompt Tuning Improved GPT-5.5 in VS Code

See how VS Code and OpenAI tested GPT-5.5 system prompt changes in a two-week experiment, cutting tool calls and tail-end token usage while speeding up edits.

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📣 Claude Sonnet 5 is now rolling out in VS Code. Give it a try! github.blog/changelog/20...

⚡ Every token matters in agentic coding workflows. Learn how the GitHub Copilot team is improving token efficiency in VS Code through smarter caching, tool search, WebSockets, and specialized subagents. 📖 Read the full post: aka.ms/vscode/blog/...

Improving token efficiency in GitHub Copilot

Learn how we're improving token efficiency in GitHub Copilot to reduce costs and latency for users.

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The new @code release supports BYOK without a GitHub sign-in, making it easier to use your own language models or run workflows using local models like Ollama. Check out what’s new:

🧠 The conversation around AI for developers usually starts with the model. But inside @code, what really shapes the experience is the coding harness: the layer responsible for context, tool calling, agent loops, terminal execution, memory, and more. code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/0...

The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code

Learn why the coding harness around GitHub Copilot in VS Code matters as models, tools, agents, and providers evolve.

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Engineer & inventor Dr. Marian Croak established the modern fundamentals of VoIP, the foundational tech that allows voice/video data to be transmitted over the internet. Her work is the backbone for services like Zoom, Skype, FaceTime & WhatsApp. #WomenInSTEM #engineering (1/2)👇

🪄 Your agent experience, refined. The latest VS Code release brings better BYOK visibility and control, integrated browser improvements, and more. It also introduces the new Agents window (preview), making it easier to explore, iterate on, and review tasks across multiple projects.

Alt text must provide context for people who cannot see the image. Describe the image's context and purpose. Do not write alt text for cute or clever jokes based on visual content you expect users can see. This is an abuse of alt text, as it violates the whole point of alt text.

On Wednesdays, we ship! 🚀 This week’s VS Code highlights include the new Customization window: a central place to manage all chat customizations.

Heard that Snowflake laid off its entire tech writing team. I can only say this: passo.uno/reconsider/

To Those Who Fired or Didn't Hire Tech Writers Because of AI

Replacing technical writers with AI-generated docs is a mistake you can still undo. Get them back. Get them onboard.

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Don't buy into the myth that "accessibility is only about adding alternative text to images." Alt text is important, of course. But there is so much more to accessibility, including headline structure, functional controls, color contrast, link text, plain language, and more.

Before you go to bed, reflect if 10y old you would be proud of yourself. If doing good is too hard, just don't hurt others, will you?

The VS Code team builds with VS Code - this is a fundamental principle of how the team works, and it extends to AI capabilities too. Learn more about how the team builds with AI, including how these processes have helped the team move from monthly to weekly releases: aka.ms/VSCode/Build...

Have you tried forking chat sessions in VS Code? Create a new independent session that keeps the conversation history so you can explore alternative approaches without losing your original context. Watch the video to see how it works. aka.ms/ForkingChat

Agents, for real work. The latest VS Code release gives you better agent orchestration, extensibility, and continuity. Here's what's new: 🪝 Hooks support 🎯 Message steering and queueing 🌐 Agentic integrated browser 🧠 Shared memory And more... 🔎 Full release notes: aka.ms/VSCode/110

February 2026 (version 1.110)

What's new in the Visual Studio Code February 2026 Release (1.110).

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Today's all about @vscode.dev release notes for 1.110: team read-out and polishing! #techwriting

Next edit suggestions just leveled-up in VS Code: with long-distance NES, you get edit suggestions anywhere in your file, not just near your cursor's position. Learn how the team built this - creating the training dataset, refining the UX, evaluating success, and more: aka.ms/VSCode/long-...

Updating our docs for the upcoming @vscode.dev 1.110 release. Always amazed by how much the team puts out! 🧪 Follow along our test plan items: github.com/issues?q=org... 🎶 My favorite song for this release: "Across 110th Street (Bobby Womack)"

No such thing as leftover tomato puree! Double concentrated🍅🍅! #nomnom

Meesjes zijn de kleuters onder de vogels!