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This AI coding assistant changed how I use VS Code, and I can't go back

I stopped Googling error messages after building this VS Code AI assistant—and it supercharged my programming.
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Special Embrace? VS Code Adapts to Claude Code's Ecosystem

Reflecting a broader trend of Microsoft embracing Claude AI, recent VS Code updates show the company accommodating Claude Code beyond model selection, with support for Claude-specific instruction ...
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VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

Just two days after GitHub announced usage-based billing for Copilot, Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.118 -- under its new weekly release cadence -- with significant token efficiency improvements designed ...
ZDNet

How to use GPT-5 in VS Code with GitHub Copilot

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Visual Studio Code 1.117: Enterprise customers can use their own LLM keys

Business and enterprise users can now connect their own API keys to use LLMs via OpenRouter, Ollama, Google, OpenAI, and more in VS Code Chat.
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Go Green with VS Code for Quicker AI Tools & Safer Model Control

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