Amazon Web Services (AWS) last week announced an agentic AI IDE called Kiro, adding to a growing camp of AI coding assistants based on Microsoft's ubiquitous open-source based Visual Studio Code ...

With "vibe coding" taking over software development with AI-driven programming and other advanced functionality, you would think the Visual Studio Code Marketplace would be flooded with new extensions ...

Try these extensions and you'll wonder how you ever lived without them!

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions. Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of ...

Free AI chatbots handle small projects surprisingly well. Pro coding agents deliver serious productivity boosts for pro coders. Spend based on what you need to get the job done. The use of AI in ...

GitHub Copilot Pro now supports GPT-5 in VS Code. A 30-day trial lets you test premium models for free. Add your OpenAI key to bypass Copilot restriction. First, open VS Code. Click the little Copilot ...

When Visual Studio Code (VS Code) was released in 2015, it revolutionized code editing. But it can do so much more for the average person who doesn't write code (yet). Let's explore how it can be ...

Roo Code is a kind of agentic mediary for your AI engine. It uses the contents of your app and the resulting outputs, along with your prompts, to send requests to the AI engine, then applies your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I continue my ongoing series about vibe ...

AI coding agents are reshaping how developers write, debug, and maintain software in 2026. The debate around Claude Code vs ChatGPT Codex highlights two distinct philosophies: local-first reasoning ...