VS Code Insiders Podcast
Episodes
Agent-First Development Workflows in VS Code with Brigit Murtaugh
25 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Explore VS Code’s new Agents window — a familiar, focused UI that puts agent-first workflows front and center across repos, harnesses, and machine...
Inside The Agent Loop with Pierce Boggan
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dive into the heart of VS Code’s agent loop as James and Pierce unravel how agents, sub-agents, tools, and harnesses work together to power your cod...
Autopilot Mode with Justin Chen
16 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Justin and James deep-dive into Autopilot and the evolving VS Code chat UX—why shimmers and collapsed containers declutter conversations, and why th...
Subagents: Parallel Execution and Context Isolation
09 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how VS Code's subagents revolutionize parallel execution and context management. Learn the fundamentals of agent loops and context window...
Orchestrating Multiple Agents in VS Code with Ben & Peng
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode James sits down with Ben and Peng from the VS Code team to unpack a year of AI evolution inside the editor — from Copilot Free to th...
VS Code - 2025 Wrapped with Burke Holland and Pierce Boggan
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Burke and Pierce sit down to review a full year of releases, surprises, partnerships, and AI goodies in VS Code from 2025! Follow VS Code: * X: https:...
Models, Evals, and Raptor Mini with Julia Kasper
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the VS Code Insiders podcast, James sits down with Julia to explore the fast-changing world of AI models inside VS Code. They dive ...
Taming AI Assisted Coding Models with Eleanor Berger
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pamela and Eleanor dig into the real art of AI‑assisted coding—delegating work to background agents, writing specs that models actually follow, an...
Designing for Everyone: Accessibility in VS Code with Megan Rogge
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Megan Rogge, Software Engineer on VS Code, joins James to explore how accessibility is woven into the culture and engineering practices of Visual Stud...
Beyond the Keynote: VS Code at GitHub Universe 2025
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it look like for VS Code to be an AI-native editor? How is it evolving with agents running locally in the editor, in a CLI, in the cloud, or...
Behind the Scenes of VS Code’s Planning Agent with Bhavya U
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The new planning agent is here to help you plan out your next tasks, but how does it differ from todos? When would you want to use the planning agent,...
Building & Scaling Open Source Communities with Steve Francia
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Francia joins the pod to talk about building, scaling, and supporting large open source projects and communities from MongoDB, Go, Cobra, Hugo, ...
Mastering Chat Modes in VS Code with Burke Holland
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Burke joins the pod to talk about chat modes, how they are evolving, how you can use them as agents, and how he created Beast mode for GPT 4.1 that re...
Building agent memory for VS Code with Harald Kirschner
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Harald joins James to talk through customizing chat, agents, and GitHub Copilot with custom instructions, prompts, and modes. We go deeper int new pro...
Impact of AI on How We Learn to Code with Scott Tolinski
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
James sits down with Scott Tolinski, of Syntax podcast, to talk about how developer education has changed over the years since he started creating tut...
The Origins & Evolution of the GitHub MCP Registry
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Toby sits down to talk about MCP, model context protocol, why it is important, how the steering commit across companies helps form the open standard, ...
The Future of Coding Agents in VS Code
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Brigit and Josh join the podcast to talk about the latest enhancements to coding agents, aka background tasks, aka background agents in VS Code. They ...
Life of a VS Code SWE Intern with Christy Nguyen
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christy joins us to talk about her internship on the VS Code team, her journey, how she landed the internship, how she developed git worktree support ...
Language Model Chat Provider (aka BYOK) API with Logan Ramos
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, VS Code engineer Logan Ramos joins the pod to talk about Bring Your Own Key... or Bring Your Own Model... the ability to configure models f...
Building a MCP to Build VS Code & The Impact of AI on Kent C. Dodds
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, VS Code engineer Tyler Leonhardt joins the podcast to give an update on the latest enhancements to MCP authentication for developers and ho...
Iteration Plan for August & Re-writing Terminal Tools
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What features are coming to VS Code in the next update? The August iteration plan is completely done in the open. How does it work, how you look at it...
Hello GPT-5 & GPT-5 mini
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
GPT-5 and GPT-5 mini are here inside of agent mode in Visual Studio Code. We discuss these new models and new features for developers including tasks ...