Microsoft’s Visual Studio team has quietly but clearly changed course: after two years of rushing AI features into the IDE, the new public roadmap emphasizes that reliability is the priority—shifting from headline-grabbing feature velocity to tightening core workflows, improving agent stability...
Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio roadmap makes one thing clear: the IDE’s next act is an aggressive shift from assistant-style suggestions to agentic, context-aware automation that can plan, act, and persist across the entire software lifecycle — and Microsoft is explicitly wiring the platform...