Microsoft’s latest push to make AI the fabric of the developer experience landed with bold claims and a mixed reception: a new Insiders Channel debut, a purported Visual Studio 2026/18.0 milestone that folds GitHub Copilot into the IDE in deeper, agentic ways, and a feature set tuned for speed...
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