VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...

Running open-source AI locally in VS Code proved possible, but the path was more complicated than the polished model catalogs initially suggested. On a modest company laptop with 12 GB of RAM and no ...

Visual Studio Code 1.133 removes mandatory GitHub sign-in for Agents and adds easier AI model switching and sticky chat ...

MCP (Model Context Protocol) provides a universal standard for connecting LLMs to external data sources and tools, eliminating the need to manually copy-paste context into a chat session and enabling ...

AI can generate C# code far faster than you can fix it. Follow these best practices to ensure that your AI-generated C# is performant, reliable, maintainable, and secure. AI-powered software ...

This article is part of AI Week. Since the start of the current wave of excitement around generative AI, coding has been viewed as a field that is ripe for implementation of the tech. After all, the ...

Microsoft is taking advantage of its intellectual property rights with OpenAI, encouraging employees to use the company's top ...