Public preview of Microsoft’s C++ tools for the AI coding assistant are available in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.

GitHub Copilot has nearly lapped the AI coding field in a new industry snapshot from Jellyfish. The Microsoft-backed assistant claimed the top spot among developers by a wide margin, outpacing rivals ...

Founders can use AI to launch a startup, but GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says they still need developers. At VivaTech in Paris, Dohmke said a startup built with coding assistants "doesn't have much value ...

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Microsoft and GitHub have made AI assistance a key part of their software development tools. Embedded in the latest Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code releases, GitHub Copilot puts a multifaceted ...

For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic AI grows more powerful and vibe coding takes off, a ...

If you're on the software developer side of the internet, you've probably heard the term "vibe coding" recently. Andrej Karpathy coined this phrase to reference a style of coding where artificial ...

Software engineer workflows have been transformed in recent years by an influx of AI coding tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot, which promise to enhance productivity by automatically writing lines ...

While trumpeting the new release of Visual Studio Code 1.101, which features a new version of GitHub Copilot, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke highlighted a quick tip for faster "vibe coding" with advanced, ...

OpenAI GPT-5 now available in public preview for GitHub Copilot users- In a major development that’s making waves across the developer and AI communities, OpenAI’s GPT-5 has officially entered public ...

What if you could say goodbye to the chaos of vague prompts and unpredictable AI-generated code? Imagine a world where your software projects are built with precision, reliability, and alignment—every ...

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with Ideogram v.3.0 GitHub is making a bold bet that enterprises don't need another proprietary coding agent: They need a way to manage all of them. At its ...