VS Code Insiders Podcast
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Go beyond the changelog with VS Code Insiders Podcast, the official podcast from the Visual Studio Code team. Each episode pulls back the curtain on the latest features, design decisions, and engineering challenges behind one of the world’s most beloved code editors.
Join us as we sit down with the developers, product managers, and community contributors shaping the future of software development. From deep dives into new extensions and experimental tooling to candid conversations about where coding is headed, VS Code Insiders Podcast is your backstage pass to the evolution of modern development.
Whether you're a seasoned dev, a curious tinkerer, or just obsessed with clean commits and clever workflows—this is your space to stay informed, inspired, and in the loop.
Join us as we sit down with the developers, product managers, and community contributors shaping the future of software development. From deep dives into new extensions and experimental tooling to candid conversations about where coding is headed, VS Code Insiders Podcast is your backstage pass to the evolution of modern development.
Whether you're a seasoned dev, a curious tinkerer, or just obsessed with clean commits and clever workflows—this is your space to stay informed, inspired, and in the loop.
11 Episodes
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Steve Francia joins the pod to talk about building, scaling, and supporting large open source projects and communities from MongoDB, Go, Cobra, Hugo, and so much more.
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* GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Special Guest: Steve Francia.
Burke joins the pod to talk about chat modes, how they are evolving, how you can use them as agents, and how he created Beast mode for GPT 4.1 that revolutionized working with this model.
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* GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Special Guest: Burke Holland.
Harald joins James to talk through customizing chat, agents, and GitHub Copilot with custom instructions, prompts, and modes. We go deeper int new proposed APIs that pulls them together to create agents and how Harald implement agent memory and shipped it as an extension!
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* GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Special Guest: Harald Kirschner.
James sits down with Scott Tolinski, of Syntax podcast, to talk about how developer education has changed over the years since he started creating tutorials, how AI is impacting how we learn to code and problem solve, and what the future looks like.
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Toby sits down to talk about MCP, model context protocol, why it is important, how the steering commit across companies helps form the open standard, and how the MCP registry standard came to be and how GitHub and VS Code are leveraging it.
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Brigit and Josh join the podcast to talk about the latest enhancements to coding agents, aka background tasks, aka background agents in VS Code. They break down why you would use them, how to use them, and their future.
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* GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Special Guests: Brigit Murtaugh and Josh Spicer.
Christy joins us to talk about her internship on the VS Code team, her journey, how she landed the internship, how she developed git worktree support in VS Code, and what's next for her.
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* GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Special Guest: Christy Nguyen.
This week, VS Code engineer Logan Ramos joins the pod to talk about Bring Your Own Key... or Bring Your Own Model... the ability to configure models from several providers including Azure, OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic, Google, and more. We talk about how and why you would actually use this functionality, but more importantly a new API for extenders to bring ANY model directly into VS Code!
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This week, VS Code engineer Tyler Leonhardt joins the podcast to give an update on the latest enhancements to MCP authentication for developers and how the VS Code team is leveraging MCP to help developer VS Code with help of the Playwright, GitHub, and other MCP servers. James also got a chance to sit down with Kent C. Dodds at the MCP Dev Days to better understand how MCP is evolving his workflow and how he sees its impact going forward.
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* GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Special Guests: Kent C. Dodds and Tyler Leonhardt.
What features are coming to VS Code in the next update? The August iteration plan is completely done in the open. How does it work, how you look at it, and how to you get involved? We also sit down with VS Code engineer Daniel Imms about vast improvements coming to the Terminal for agent mode integraiton.
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* GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode Special Guest: Daniel Imms.
GPT-5 and GPT-5 mini are here inside of agent mode in Visual Studio Code. We discuss these new models and new features for developers including tasks lists, manage models, and beast mode!
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* GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
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