GitHub's AI usage reports now show input, output, cache-read and cache-write token counts for each model. The report already identified models and AI Credit consumption; the token-level breakdown is ...

Angela Dugan explains why judgment, curiosity, shared context and leadership become more valuable as AI accelerates software delivery, and previews her Live! 360 Tech Con session on using AI as a ...

Good documentation is important for any application, and it starts with documenting your code. It helps you and it helps your users. It's no secret that I believe documentation is a crucial element of ...

VS Code forks are diverging rapidly, not just in features, but in how they structure AI-assisted development workflows. Cursor emphasizes speed and visual polish, Windsurf leans toward dynamic ...

"The gap between C# and Java never has been so small," says the latest edition of the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity. "Currently, the difference is only 1.2 percent, and if the trends ...

A new GitHub repo serves as a lab for creating a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and using it in Microsoft Copilot Studio. The MCP, originated by AI leader Anthropic and taken open source, is a ...

"GitHub Spec Kit is an experiment-- there are a lot of questions that we still want to answer, and if community feedback is an indicator, there are quite a few features we can still add to make the ...

OpenAI's "Codex" AI model is back, in a new form from the 2021 offering that powered the original GitHub Copilot and kickstarted the GenAI craze. Rather, the new Codex, now in research preview, is ...

Production telemetry from millions of GitHub Copilot users shows that 87 percent of LLM calls are initiated by the agent itself after a developer starts a turn, while failures can trigger lengthy ...

Microsoft's latest VS Code update adds provider switching and a GitHub-free entry path specifically for Claude sessions.

Two months after GitHub Copilot adopted usage-based billing, developers continue to report rapidly disappearing AI credits, question Copilot's economics and compare its costs with competing coding ...

Microsoft has aligned VS Code's existing agent-plugin feature with a vendor-neutral format for portable skills and MCP servers.