GitHub has added input, output and cache token counts to its downloadable AI usage reports, providing more detail about how individual models consume AI Credits.
Microsoft's latest VS Code update adds provider switching and a GitHub-free entry path specifically for Claude sessions.
New controls for model reasoning and Copilot code-review depth let developers decide how much AI effort a task warrants, with speed, depth and credit consumption all part of the tradeoff.
Production telemetry from millions of GitHub Copilot users shows that 87 percent of LLM calls are initiated by the agent itself after a developer starts a turn, while failures can trigger lengthy autonomous retry loops.
Two months after GitHub Copilot adopted usage-based billing, developers continue to report rapidly disappearing AI credits, question Copilot's economics and compare its costs with competing coding agents.
Microsoft has aligned VS Code's existing agent-plugin feature with a vendor-neutral format for portable skills and MCP servers.
OpenAI unifies paid ChatGPT on Sol as Microsoft, GitHub and enterprise users scrutinize AI consumption and cost.
Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release adds contextual side conversations, element-level web feedback and several smaller editor refinements.
Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.
Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.
A hobby coder's rough return to Visual Studio highlights how IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot have created several overlapping layers of code completion -- along with settings intended to keep them from fighting for attention.
Separate Oracle guides for Fusion AI Agent Studio and APEX development illustrate how VS Code has evolved from a popular editor into a foundation for an expanding range of developer experiences.
Microsoft is devoting an unusual share of the early VS Code 1.131 Insiders cycle to built-in dictation, Voice Mode and other speech-driven development features.
With devs reeling from usage-based billing sticker shock, Visual Studio 18.9 makes monthly Copilot plan usage easier to reach from the coding workflow while adding more cost information to a redesigned model picker.
Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release advances shared agent sessions, multi-file change review, chat visibility and terminal navigation
Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.
Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the additional token use.
GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- the cost of agentic development.
Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.
Visual Studio Code 1.129 adds a dedicated process for running AI agent sessions and an experimental docked editor for reviewing agent-generated changes.
