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Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 4.5, claiming the title of the world's best coding model, being able to do it for up to 30 ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...

What if your favorite coding tool just got smarter, faster, and more intuitive? That’s exactly what the latest update to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) promises. With a bold focus on AI integration, ...

The Visual Studio Code editor can sometimes encounter issues that leave you with no choice but to reset its settings. Resetting the settings reverts everything back to default, allowing VS Code to ...

If you’re a GitHub Copilot user on an individual plan, there’s good news. Microsoft has added auto model selection to Visual Studio Code’s chat feature in the August 2025 (v1.104) update. Instead of ...

Microsoft has released the first version of Visual Studio 2026, introducing a major overhaul of its flagship IDE centered on AI, speed, and a modern user interface. Available through a new “Insiders ...

Lately, everyone’s talking about using AI for coding, and ChatGPT is right at the center of it. It’s like having a coding buddy who can help you out with all sorts of tasks, from writing small bits of ...

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...