Brannon Jones

Nerd @Microsoft

[Visual Studio Code @code]

🪄 Your agent experience, refined.

The latest @code release brings better BYOK visibility and control, integrated browser improvements, and more.

It also introduces the new Agents window (preview), making it easier to explore, iterate on, and review tasks across multiple projects.

[Dona Sarkar @donasarkar]

Folks, there is no dramatic take here. Julia has done amazing work for 34 YEARS.

That’s longer than many of you have been ALIVE.

Let this woman rest and never have to think about the words “dev tool” again.

[Jeffrey Snover @jsnover]

David has exactly the right mindset here.
Use AI to clean up our unfinished business.
Go back and fix all those auto-closed security bugs and implement the horizontal requirements we never had finding for.

[Brannon Jones @brannon]

@BigRedsRetroGmz Doh! 3 Advances at once.. I was the one looking for an Advance on Friday 🤦‍♂️

[GitHub @github]

You can now use your GitHub Copilot subscription with @opencode 🙌

[Visual Studio Code @code]

The latest @code release brings auto model selection (preview) - a way to have the best model picked for you based on current capacity and performance.

Currently being rolled out to all GitHub Copilot users in @code starting with individuals. Learn more: https://t.co/NRPlFJMZA1

[Visual Studio Code @code]

🚀 v1.104 of @code is here! Check out what's new:

🤖 Improved coding agent integration
📄 https://t.co/9cFlQQ7ZvV file support for better context
🔍 New Auto mode (Preview) for smart model selection
🔑 Model flexibility via BYOK extension API

…and more: https://t.co/boEesMwyZ9

Here are the highlights 🧵

[Brannon Jones @brannon]

@BigRedsRetroGmz For how much will you list it?

[Thomas Dohmke @ashtom]

Our new code completion model is shipping in public preview today. We are calling it GPT-4o Copilot. Based on GPT-4o mini, with mid-training on a code-focused corpus exceeding 1T tokens and reinforcement learning with code execution feedback (RLEF). Then used real-life coding workflows and fine-tuned the model across 32 major programming languages. Lower latency, better quality. First public flight available in VS Code today, JetBrains IDEs in a few days. More soon. https://t.co/PQ87A6MzT4

[Thomas Dohmke @ashtom]

Today, we bring o3-mini to GitHub Copilot and Models.

Small but mighty ftw https://t.co/mNFEiHmpDy

[Matt Dawson @SaintRPh]

Because of this scene I still do this sometime with a mouse

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

In the last few months, we've been building a platform that allows users to register new agents (including third parties) on Copilot. DataStax is one of the first integrators and we would like to open the doors to everyone who are building developer tools. #GitHubUniverse

[Jen Gentleman 🌺 @JenMsft]

@Windows I'll never be able to unsee this

[dax @thdxr]

i want to get something off my chest that might be unpopular but it’s been bothering me

i find complaining about “return to office” annoying

it’s not what you think - i’ve been working exclusively remotely for almost a decade

i believe in it and really value it

but i’m a bit salty

back when i decided that i wanted to commit to working remotely it meant accepting that 98% of job opportunities were unavailable to me

i had to go to companies, get them extra excited about working together and then negotiate remote

sometimes this meant taking a cut on salary and also making sure i worked extra hard so anyone apprehensive about the setup didn’t have regrets

it was hard but there’s one thing that was particularly annoying

a lot of people saw my setup and if they were honest with themselves, i know they were interested in it

who likes a commute?

but they weren’t ready to go off the straightforward path and gamble on trying to pull it off - this is totally okay

but to rationalize that decision to themselves they went to the opposite extreme and made it extra hard for those that did want to work remote

they’d talk about how it just can’t work, how it’s bad for you, how no good teams can work this way

i wasn’t trying to convince them of anything, i just personally wanted to work this way and the constant arguments stemming from insecurity made it even harder

and then COVID happened and gifted everyone the ability to work remotely

and suddenly, all of these same people who were against it, became champions of remote work

now they demand it, feel entitled to it, make up conspiracy theories on why their boss wants them in office

and still they’d rather complain about things than put something on the line and quit and bet on themselves to find a place that’s more aligned

the irony is i find myself agreeing with most companies’ RTO policy

i’ve worked remotely for a long time, there are real tradeoffs and many people and companies are not setup to be productive without being in office

despite being pro remote, if i could have anything it would be an office walking distance that i’d go to a few times a week

i wish some of my coworkers lived in my city

100% remote is far from ideal - especially when i’m working on something so early stage

but now the conversation has swung to the opposite extreme where people are rabidly pro-remote

seeing things like “you only want an office because your social life is broken”

it’s turned into the same thing as before where i have to avoid talking about this topic because it attracts anger

i wish people would understand the world is big enough for every kind of setup if you commit to finding it

0%, 50%, 100% remote

just because someone is doing something different that isn’t somehow an attack on what you want

[Cory House @housecor]

A pattern I've noticed: A designer ships great work, gets bored, and moves on.

A new designer is hired, and immediately wants to do a redesign. Often, the redesign is unnecessary and inferior.

Thankfully, this never happens in development.

[Brannon Jones @brannon]

@trunarla Also, I love that bookshelf. Would love to know where it's from!

[Brannon Jones @brannon]

@trunarla @trunarla love the setup! Could you share which monitor that is?

[Brannon Jones @brannon]

@rakyll 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯

[Brannon Jones @brannon]

@JenMsft Wait, what?

[Brannon Jones @brannon]

@bradwilson I started with Slackware. Cobbled together an old 386 as my first Linux box (as opposed to the 486 I ran DOS/Windows on).