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How VS Code Builds with AI

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How VS Code Builds with AI March 13, 2026 by Pierce Boggan We use AI every day to ship VS Code. It's made us so much faster that, after ten years of monthly releases, we just went weekly. Agents were the key that unlocked this, not just for writing code, but across every part of how the team works. To kick off Agent Sessions Day, I sat down with Peng Lyu, Engineering Manager on the VS Code team, t...
Patterns detected: ARC-0024 Ambiguity – The narrative is deliberately vague about the *degree* of automation. Phrases like "increased automation," "synergistic partnership," and “codebase-ready” are used to create a plausible deniability about the potential for significant displacement of human developers. This is a classic motte-and-bailey tactic, erecting a small, easily dismissed objection (that automation is just a “partnership”) while distracting from the core question of how much human lab...