Anthropic's Claude Code for VS Code has surpassed OpenAI's Codex extension in Visual Studio Code Marketplace installs and review volume despite launching later. OpenAI positions Codex as an IDE ...

Visual Studio 2026 now surfaces a "Cloud" option in the Copilot Chat agent picker, bringing it in line with VS Code, which has offered cloud agent delegation for longer. The cloud agent runs on GitHub ...

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...