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A recursive vibe journalism experiment in which Microsoft 365 Copilot's "Prompt Coach" agent is used to wholly create an article on how to use "Prompt Coach" agent to prompt M365 Copilot.
01/22/2026
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Microsoft released new open‑source quantum development tools that deepen VS Code and Copilot integration while targeting real‑world hybrid quantum workloads in chemistry, optimization, and machine learning.
01/22/2026
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A review of five non-Copilot AI coding assistants available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that support Visual Studio 2026 and exceed 100,000 installs.
01/20/2026
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Learn how to supercharge your GenAI apps with PostgreSQL and Azure AI. Lino Tadros shows how PGVector and AI Extensions in VS Code turn PostgreSQL into an intelligent foundation for high-performance GenAI systems--solving common RAG pitfalls like irrelevance and hallucination.
01/20/2026
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What a difference a year makes in the fast-moving advanced-AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become more integrated there, while Visual Studio is beginning to add similar capabilities through Copilot Chat in a more limited form. Here's a hands-on demo of what you can do now in both.
01/14/2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.108 expands AI capabilities with experimental Agent Skills for Copilot, alongside updates to chat sessions, terminal tooling, accessibility, and core editor workflows.
01/12/2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.108 introduces Agent Skills for GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to define reusable, domain-specific automation that can handle everything from code refactoring to custom text and formatting cleanup.
01/11/2026
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After a long-unused VS Code extension stopped working, I compared multiple AI tools to recreate the same HTML-wrapping workflow using built-in snippets and keybindings. Mileage among the systems varied. And the approach I used for my text-writing use case can be easily translated to coding scenarios.
01/09/2026
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the kernel ridge regression technique to predict a single numeric value, implemented using JavaScript. The demo trains the model using kernel matrix inverse (Cholesky decomposition). There is no single best machine learning regression technique, but when kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often highly accurate.
01/06/2026
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Microsoft has moved C++ into Visual Studio's deepest Copilot tier, adding symbol-aware tools in public preview that let Copilot agent mode refactor and edit large C++ codebases across multiple files, similar to the kind of deep integration long associated with C#
12/19/2025
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Microsoft was again named a Leader in Gartner’s 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms, highlighting Azure AI Foundry’s enterprise focus.
12/18/2025
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Microsoft has begun decommissioning IntelliCode in VS Code, ending free local AI-assisted completions and shifting its developer AI strategy fully to subscription-based GitHub Copilot.
12/17/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression using pseudo-inverse training. Compared to other training techniques, such as stochastic gradient descent, pseudo-inverse training does not require any parameters and so it is especially simple to use.
12/15/2025
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GitHub Spark, an AI app-generation tool separate from Copilot still in public preview, gains enterprise, billing, and UI upgrades in its latest update.
12/12/2025
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Microsoft's November 2025 Visual Studio Code update (version 1.107) advances multi-agent orchestration for GitHub Copilot and custom agents, adds a centralized Language Models editor and new safety controls, and continues work on TypeScript 7 and MCP integration.
12/12/2025
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Microsoft previews a GitHub Copilot-powered VS Code Insiders tool that modernizes JavaScript/TypeScript apps by upgrading npm dependencies and fixing breaking changes.
12/10/2025
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GitHub changelog posts detail new Copilot Spaces sharing features, a Visual Studio Copilot update, and public preview access to OpenAI's GPT-5.1-Codex-Max model.
12/09/2025
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Microsoft is expanding Azure's AI stack with more model choices in Microsoft Foundry and more flexible hybrid and sovereign deployment paths, reinforcing a build-on-Azure-AI, deploy-where-needed approach.
12/09/2025
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Expert consultant Greg Shulz said next-generation data visualization requires modernizing the full pipeline from data preparation through AI-governed analytics to interactive, story-driven presentation in order to reduce mean time to insight.
12/05/2025
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GitHub Copilot users can now select Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 model in chat across Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio (plus several other IDEs) during a new public preview.
12/04/2025
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Microsoft Foundry has introduced a preview cloud-hosted Foundry MCP Server that lets AI agents securely access Foundry tools for model, agent, deployment, and evaluation workflows from VS Code, Visual Studio, or Foundry itself
12/04/2025
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Since its Nov. 11 debut, Visual Studio 2026 sees improved Copilot Chat response quality by enhancing semantic code search with remote indexes, expanding awareness of external C# symbols, and increasing accuracy when developers reference specific line numbers, alongside new Copilot features like a GitHub Cloud Agent preview, context-menu actions, and intent detection in All-In-One Search.
12/03/2025
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Microsoft has been busy adding new features to Visual Studio 2026, which reached general availability on Nov. 11, including several new features driven by AI to enhance developer workflow.
12/03/2025
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Microsoft has added Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 to Microsoft Foundry in public preview, highlighting benchmark gains for coding and tool use, new agent-building controls in Foundry, expanded vision and computer-use capabilities, and updated pricing and regional availability.
12/02/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of anomaly detection using k-means data clustering, implemented with JavaScript. Compared to other anomaly detection techniques, k-means anomaly detection is simple to implement, simple to interpret, and simple to customize.
12/01/2025