With devs reeling from usage-based billing sticker shock, Visual Studio 18.9 makes monthly Copilot plan usage easier to reach from the coding workflow while adding more cost information to a ...

Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release advances shared agent sessions, multi-file change review, chat visibility and terminal navigation ...

Microsoft has released a stable, customizable Agent Framework Harness for building autonomous agents with .NET and Python. The harness combines an automatic tool-calling loop with planning, persistent ...

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the ...

GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- ...

René van Osnabrugge makes the case that AI's biggest opportunity in software development is not faster coding -- it's reducing the friction everywhere else in the SDLC.