James Montemagno
Co-Host of VS Code Insiders Podcast
James Montemagno has hosted 11 Episodes.
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Building & Scaling Open Source Communities with Steve Francia
October 27th, 2025 | 25 mins 42 secs
open source
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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Mastering Chat Modes in VS Code with Burke Holland
October 20th, 2025 | 26 mins 55 secs
agents, beast mode, chat modes
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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Building agent memory for VS Code with Harald Kirschner
October 13th, 2025 | 25 mins 41 secs
agent mode, apis, extensions
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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Impact of AI on How We Learn to Code with Scott Tolinski
October 6th, 2025 | 23 mins 12 secs
ai, education
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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The Origins & Evolution of the GitHub MCP Registry
September 29th, 2025 | 22 mins 58 secs
mcp, registry
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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The Future of Coding Agents in VS Code
September 22nd, 2025 | 22 mins 24 secs
background tasks, coding agents, github coding agent
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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Life of a VS Code SWE Intern with Christy Nguyen
September 15th, 2025 | 25 mins 57 secs
git, git worktrees, internship, source control
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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Language Model Chat Provider (aka BYOK) API with Logan Ramos
September 8th, 2025 | 17 mins 8 secs
byok, extensions
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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Building a MCP to Build VS Code & The Impact of AI on Kent C. Dodds
September 1st, 2025 | 57 mins 34 secs
mcp, playwright
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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Iteration Plan for August & Re-writing Terminal Tools
August 25th, 2025 | 31 mins 27 secs
planning, terminal
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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Hello GPT-5 & GPT-5 mini
August 18th, 2025 | 18 mins 33 secs
beast mode, gpt-5, release
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!