Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan's Claude Code setup, which was shared on GitHub. And everyone has an opinion: even ...

This hands-on PoC shows how I got an open-source model running locally in Visual Studio Code, where the setup worked, where it broke down, and what to watch out for if you want to apply a local model ...

Since Andrej Karpathy coined the term “vibe coding” just over a year ago, we’ve seen a rapid increase in both the ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log ...

Version 6.0 is here! This milestone features several enhancements focused on integration with GitHub Copilot to help our extension be AI-ready. IDL Agent is a set of dedicated MCP tools and ...

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

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