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A new VS Code extension called Nogic visualizes codebases as interactive graphs and drew strong interest on Hacker News. Commenters praised the concept for understanding large or unfamiliar codebases, ...

VS Code forks are diverging rapidly, not just in features, but in how they structure AI-assisted development workflows. Cursor emphasizes speed and visual polish, Windsurf leans toward dynamic ...

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 arrives in Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot, bringing advanced reasoning, agentic coding, and a 1M-token context window.

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple ...

Oh, sure, I can “code.” That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.