VS Code: Chat Gets Smarter & Performance Wins All Around
A productive day with 20 merged PRs and 30 additional commits focusing on major chat system improvements, performance optimizations, and quality-of-life enhancements. Connor Peet delivered significant chat polishes for steering and queued messages, while the team tackled everything from terminal performance to accessibility fixes.
Duration: PT4M18S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from VS Code.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: VS Code
- Published: 2026-02-04T11:15:19Z
- Audio duration: PT4M18S
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Hey there, amazing developers! Welcome back to another episode of the VS Code podcast. I'm your host, and wow, do we have a packed show for you today. February 4th was absolutely buzzing with activity - 20 merged pull requests and 30 additional commits. It's like watching a well-oiled development machine in action,…
Let's dive right into our headliner - Connor Peet just delivered some serious chat system magic with PR 292775. We're talking about polishes for steering and queued messages that span 14 files and over 680 lines of changes. What I love about this one is Connor actually included a video walkthrough of the various…
Speaking of chat improvements, we've got a fascinating new feature brewing - initial hooks support from pwang347. This is a massive 3,359 line addition across 41 files, laying the groundwork for what could be a game-changing extensibility feature. It's still in the early stages, but anytime you see API work of this…
Now, let's talk performance because the team really delivered here. Our Copilot contributor tackled a brilliant optimization for terminal performance. You know those moments when you're running something intensive in the terminal - maybe playing…
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