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Building AI apps and agents with Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft’s Azure-based AI development and deployment platform shines with a strong selection of models and agent types and ...

This $1.4 Billion Startup’s AI Writes Code For Weeks At A Time

Backed by $200 million in fresh funding, Blitzy has convinced companies to hand off software development to AI that can build ...
MUO on MSN

I ditched VS Code for this 20-year-old editor and never looked back

This editor just gets out of the way.
Visual Studio Magazine

Special Embrace? VS Code Adapts to Claude Code's Ecosystem

Reflecting a broader trend of Microsoft embracing Claude AI, recent VS Code updates show the company accommodating Claude Code beyond model selection, with support for Claude-specific instruction ...
How-To Geek on MSN

How to use Claude as a coding tutor that tracks my progress (prompt included)

I built a coding tutor that won't let me cheat my way through it. Here's the prompt.

OpenAI’s Codex now has a tiny AI pet that keeps you updated while you code

OpenAI has introduced Codex Pets, optional animated companions for its Codex desktop app that sit on your screen and track what the coding agent is doing in real time.

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usage-based pricing ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

Just two days after GitHub announced usage-based billing for Copilot, Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.118 -- under its new weekly release cadence -- with significant token efficiency improvements designed ...