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4 VS Code forks built for specific tasks

Ask any programming enthusiast about their preferred code editor, and you’ll probably hear the name VS Code in the conversation a couple of times, and for good reason. Its lightweight nature, coupled ...
Visual Studio Magazine

New Agents Panel Brings Copilot Coding Tasks to Visual Studio and VS Code

GitHub has expanded its Copilot coding agent with a new agents panel, giving Visual Studio and VS Code users a centralized way to launch and track AI-driven coding tasks directly alongside their ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Why Copilot's Auto Mode for AI Models Ignores Your Actual Task

When you fire up an AI Chat session with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio 2026, you might expect the initial model used to assist you is based on the specific coding task you're ...
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OpenAI Codex gets a major update, now also available as a VS Code extension

OpenAI has launched a new Codex extension for VS Code and its forks, allowing developers to use the AI coding agent directly within their IDE. Back in May, OpenAI announced Codex, a cloud-based ...