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 ...

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.

OpenAI unifies paid ChatGPT on Sol as Microsoft, GitHub and enterprise users scrutinize AI consumption and cost.

C# expert Mark Michaelis explores what .NET developers still need to learn for themselves as AI takes on more coding work, highlighting DevOps, testing, technical debt and the engineering discipline ...

New controls for model reasoning and Copilot code-review depth let developers decide how much AI effort a task warrants, with speed, depth and credit consumption all part of the tradeoff.

Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.

Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release adds contextual side conversations, element-level web feedback and several smaller editor refinements.

At Visual Studio Live! San Diego, Cognizant Senior Architect Manpreet Singh will show developers how to move beyond AI prototypes and build secure, governed, enterprise-ready intelligent agents with ...