VS Code: Chat Experience Gets a Major Polish
The VS Code team shipped 12 pull requests focused heavily on improving the chat experience, with significant work on question carousels, terminal integration, and diff viewing. Connor Peet and Megan Rogge led the charge with multiple contributions each, while the team also upgraded ripgrep and fixed some critical Mac browser issues.
Duration: PT3M58S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-01-31T11:14:22Z
- Audio duration: PT3M58S
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Hey there, VS Code enthusiasts! Welcome back to another episode of the VS Code podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do we have a packed day to talk about. January 31st brought us some really exciting updates that show the team is laser-focused on polishing the chat experience.
Let's dive right into the big story of the day - the chat improvements are absolutely everywhere! Karthik led the charge with a significant overhaul of how question carousels work. They switched to a list-style selection for both single and multi-select questions, which sounds simple but involved touching over 600…
Connor Peet was absolutely on fire today with multiple contributions. One of my favorites is the enhancement to compare block diff actions. This isn't just a small tweak - we're talking about adding toggle functionality between inline and side-by-side diff views, plus a new "open in diff editor" action. If you've…
Connor also tackled what they delightfully called "screen cheese" in sensitive file overflow. I had to chuckle at that term, but the fix actually cleaned up a bunch of old height eventing code that was left over from an earlier refactor. It's always satisfying when you can fix bugs and clean…
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