This head-to-head test compared Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot Pro using a real-world editorial workflow to evaluate their performance as 'agentic' assistants beyond simple coding. Both tools ...

Multi-agent orchestration makes workflow more inspectable, with clear handoffs and a QA backstop. Breaking the work into discrete steps makes the output easier to audit and fix. A timestamped handoff ...

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

Pencil.dev focuses on design-to-code speed versus static tools; upcoming reusable component libraries are planned for 2026.

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...

Around one month after launching Codex for Mac, OpenAI brings Codex to Windows with a new suite of IDEs supported.