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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Visual Studio Code comes up on Latent Space, the Startup Ideas Podcast, Lenny's Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, No Priors
How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- ▶ 1:46 Matt Bornstein They had Copilot, they had Office, you know, they had VS Code, all of these things combined, they were going to somehow win AI.
- ▶ 5:38 Sarah Wang And so there was this maybe more consensus thought that a VS Code fork versus the plugin into VS Code would, one, would be better for enterprise, and it wasn't the former, it would be the latter.
- ▶ 12:18 Martin Casado Easy decision on the Series A, but, you know, you know, Matt, Matt, Matt led the early deal, and he saw something a lot of people didn't, which was this, which is, if you looked at the competitive landscape, it was almost silly, which is… 2 times in the scene
Inside AppLovin’s $100B Ad Engine
- ▶ 54:58 Gio (Giovanni) So, like the, for, for the IDE, I use VS code, right?
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 32:02 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) You were sitting in visual code or studio or whatever, and you were trying to write something and the AI would be like this pestilent co-worker was like, let me drive.
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 4:19 Ivan Burazin But the interesting part is that we, at that point in time, because there was no VS code, for those that still remember VS code, um, for, um, there was no Kubernetes and Docker had just started when we, or I'm not sure if it was even, 2 times in the scene
The Agent Harness: Building Secure Sandboxes for Autonomous AI Workloads
- ▶ 23:45 Ivan Borzin And so in 2009, for those of you that were around, there was like no Docker, no Kubernetes, no VS code.
Screensharing How to Start an AI Agent Business Today
- ▶ 16:10 Greg Isenberg Look at this screenshot of a data table, um, batch and edit photos, refactor in VS code, data analysis and spreadsheets.
Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:39:11 Cliff Weitzman Fork the open source repository for VS Code and add Claude Sonnet at the time.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- ▶ 46:11 Felix Rieseberg And one of the first things we used it for was visual studio code, which is the code editor that has since become quite popular with people and cursor is built on top of it and various other companies are. 3 times in the scene
#2302 Superpowering Claude with 10,000 apps
- ▶ 21:24 Andrew Warner Um, I use VS code and just seeing what I can do and what I could have it do for me.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 4:21 Felix Rieseberg Like, I think a similar thing happened, a similar thing happened to me about 10 years ago, like maybe 12 years ago when I was at Microsoft, and we started working on, on Electron and like browser-based technologies and cross-platform… 4 times in the scene
Building AI Agents that actually work (Full Course)
- ▶ 34:50 Remy Gaskill So I like to use Claude code within Visual Studio code.
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:31 Madhav Jha And so we, even though we have this VS code editor, we kind of hide it.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 1:03:11 Kyle Kranen And Bill also built, uh, health build NVIDIA's first internal, like VS code thing. 5 times in the scene
Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
- ▶ 29:34 unnamed speaker But like, usually at that stage when you're five, when you're just a VS Code fork, like, it's like,
- ▶ 33:49 Jonas Nelle And we've thought a lot about, this might seem funny coming from Cursor where we started as this, you know, VS Code fork, and I think inherited a lot of amazing things, but also a lot of legacy UI from VS Code. 2 times in the scene
Claude Code for Finance + The Global Memory Shortage: Doug O'Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 1:19:36 Shawn Wang Which is, by the way, just the VS Code extension, right?
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:40 Boris Cherny I use, you know, VS Code because it's somewhere. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:37 Boris Cherny Um, it's in the iOS and Android apps, just like in the code tab, it's in Slack, it's in GitHub, there's VS code extensions, there's JetBrains extensions.
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:57 Sebastian Siemiatkowski The problem is also like, because I wasn't an engineer, I never used like, you know, uh, VS code or any of these tools.
AI marketing Masterclass: From beginner to expert in 60 minutes
- ▶ 7:44 James Dickerson So, uh, the, the tool stack that I use here, I've got my IDE, uh, cursor VS code, cloud code.
- ▶ 28:20 James Dickerson And I tried to, uh, like, if you use, um, VS Code or whatever, there's like a, there's like a Cloud Code plugin that kind of turns it into, like, what you might feel online if you use Cloud or something like that, but I don't know, man.
#2295 Ryan Carson: How AI does my marketing for me
- ▶ 17:58 Ryan Carson They can use, if they like a visual environment, like an IDE, they can use VS code or they can use cursor and, and, um, they have their own agents. 2 times in the scene
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 3:42 Satya Nadella So for example, when I'm in a CLI, I can go a foreground agent, background agent, and then just literally go edit in VS code right there, all happening in parallel.
I built a $14K/month SaaS using Discord
- ▶ 4:16 Sam Adeniyi And then I Googled and I saw something called a visual studio code 3 times in the scene
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 1:40 David Soria Parra And then, you know, you had like the first big clients coming in, like Cursor and VS Code.
- ▶ 33:14 David Soria Parra And if you have like a VS code or anything else that wants to talk to your registry, you just connect it to yours and you're, you're good to go.
- ▶ 40:16 David Soria Parra It might be VS Code, might be Cloud Desktop.
⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
- ▶ 12:46 Brian Fioca And you're seeing Zed use this, uh, GitHub, uh, VS code lets you just like package a whole agent to work inside of it.
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 11:55 Alexander Embirikos So super concretely, that means it's an IDE extension, a VS code extension, uh, that you can install or a terminal tool that you can install.
Reviewing Claude Opus 4.5
- ▶ 38:02 James (The Boring Marketer) I mean, at the end of the day, they're both VS code forks, you know, so they're, they're both kind of based off of, uh, VS code, um, which is open source and, and free. 2 times in the scene
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 2:42 Matthias Wagner You can fork VS Code. 2 times in the scene
Peter Thiel and Softbank Sell NVIDIA - Why? & Why VC Will Hit $1TRN and The Opening of Retail · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:27 Tomasz Tunguz And so, but they can come out the way they did with, uh, teams and just, just come out of nowhere.
Cursor Head of Design Roasts Startup Websites · Y Combinator
Satya Nadella describes how lessons from Microsoft’s history apply to today’s boom
- ▶ 16:01 Satya Nadella Whether it's Excel or VS Code, because the reality is AI generates output.
Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- ▶ 19:36 John Coogan Product is, and this is all we've, this is all we've seen, a VS code fork with minimal autocomplete.
Could LLMs Be The Route To Superintelligence? — With Mustafa Suleyman
- ▶ 33:05 Mustafa Suleyman Great models inside of, um, you know, GitHub and VS code.
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 16:40 Jared Palmer And so you think about the new core core AI organization, you've got Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and parts of Azure, all in one. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:51 unnamed speaker Uh, do you see that as a standard that we should invest in as like a, it's like a thing, like, cause it's supported in VS code. 3 times in the scene
⚡ Inside Google Labs: Building The Gemini Coding Agent — Jed Borovik, Jules + AIE CODE Preview
- ▶ 32:16 unnamed speaker VS Code extension. 2 times in the scene
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 5:07 Martin Casado What the cursor did well is you were incredibly focused, you chose VS Code, Copilot had matured the market for a few years at the time, and it was this narrow focus and just like a way, way, way better product, um, that did it. 3 times in the scene
How Zyphra went all-in on AMD + Why Devs feel faster with AI but are slower — with Quentin Anthony
- ▶ 34:09 Quentin Anthony Instead, I just have like a bunch of models at my fingertips if I need, um, in my local VS code editor.
- ▶ 43:11 Quentin Anthony But I try and open a lot of new chats, um, or like, you know, refresh in VS code, like what, you know, what I had done before.
Vercel's CEO Shares 5 AI Startup Ideas So Good You’ll Quit Your Job
- ▶ 4:45 Guillermo Rauch I suggested to the team that in order to highlight our partners of this launch, which were Anthropic, Cursor, I believe VS Code as well.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
- ▶ 6:30 Satya Nadella Then you have the IDE, so you can bring up VS code, where you can do the diff on each of the branches output, and then so the story goes on.
No Priors Ep. 137 | With Warp Co-Founder & CEO Zach Lloyd
- ▶ 7:57 Zach Lloyd The competitors are typically like VS code clones.
I Built an Entire App with OpenAI's Codex and 8 AI Agent Employees
- ▶ 17:13 unnamed speaker So for those who want to work with us at home alongside us, which I think is a very smart idea, what I have here is Visual Studio Code, completely free. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:44 Greg Isenberg It's kind of crazy because if I had downloaded VS Code, downloaded Codex, I wouldn't have known that like just by looking at local versus cloud.
20VC: The Startup Adding $1M ARR Every Week | Competing Against OpenAI's Codex and Claude Code: Who Wins | Why Gemini is Failing and GPT-5 Is Winning | Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | The Ugly Truth About AI Coding with Zach Lloyd, Warp
- ▶ 26:45 Zach Lloyd So every other single product out there is either a clone of VS Code, which again is Codex or Cursor or Windsor for whatever.
Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
- ▶ 1:05:02 Tobi Lütke We are using Cursor, which is basically VS Code. 2 times in the scene
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 13:30 Thorsten Ball So we started with the VS Code extension because it was the easiest thing to get off the ground. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:19 Quinn Slack And we, about three weeks ago, we said, we think probably it's painful, but we will kill the VS code extension for AMP. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:01 Quinn Slack Because right now in my VS code, I can hit Apple T if I'm positioned in a test file inside of one of those test blocks, and it's only going to run that one.
She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge · PMF Show
- ▶ 15:13 Shensi Ding I was like playing around with, with VS code, just trying to get back into it.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:34 Amjad Masad Right, that's IntelliSense if you're using VS code, and you can think of it as level one autonomy.
Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
- ▶ 53:42 unnamed speaker Cursor and windsurf are being, are better than VS code for like AI native thing, just because they didn't have to deal with removing things and why cognition is like, you know,
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:41 Michael Truell We thought that, you know, VS Code had been developed over the course of 12 years, was one of the earliest TypeScript projects, um, had lots of people on it. 2 times in the scene
⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- ▶ 2:39 Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) So some, some of your listeners might know, but back in the day, VS Code could actually not run in a browser. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:32 Chris (Christian Weichel) And if I need to go deeper and want to see how these changes look like, I can pop into VS code right here. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:37 Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) Having VS Code in the browser, this is a native and full fun, like fully working VS Code version that I think gives us a very nice blend where you don't need to access your desktop IDE, but you can get a lot of things done in VS Code in… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:53 Shawn Wang Um, and, you know, I think this calls back a little bit, you know, the whole VS Code in the browser thing to the end of localhost post that I, that I wrote that I know you guys saw. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:37 Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) Gives you a bit of more estate, and then I think, like, VS Code in the browser also really, really shines.
Cohere Founder, Nick Frosst: How To Compete with OpenAI & Anthropic, and Sam Altman’s AI Disservice · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:12:00 Nick Frosst I mean, we make our own models, so if we wanted to use our own model and use, plug that into an extension of VS Code, that would be something we could do if that was.
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- ▶ 3:38 Lenny Rachitsky It's available in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
The State of AI: Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Wave
- ▶ 12:40 Martin Casado It was Copilot, and so Microsoft had invested a ton of money and matured the market with, with Copilot, with VS Code, and so everybody knew it. 2 times in the scene
Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- ▶ 28:16 Jeff Huber You all have done this before in VS code or cursor, right?
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:41 Dylan Field Uh, I think of them as someone that, I mean, we just launched our MCP server to explicitly make it so that you can get your designs into Cursor and Winsurf and all these other, and VS code, you know, all these great tools faster.
⚡️OpenCode: Claude Code but Open Source, with Any Model, and frontier TUI - with Dax Reed (@thdxr)
- ▶ 8:52 Shawn Wang Like either, either you form either, you know, fork VS code or you build VS code. 2 times in the scene
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 32:30 Bret Taylor The reason I think that is, I do think the act of, uh, creating software is going to transform from typing into a terminal or typing into Visual Studio code to operating a code generating machine.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 1:11:44 Kevin Hou Yes, code, JetBrains, Vim, Emacs.
- ▶ 1:22:59 Scott Wu But the ability to just have a VS Code live share in Devin's machine, and, you know, if you want to collaborate with Devin and say, hey, oh, there's this, these couple lines, like, you know, you should make this edit.
- ▶ 1:36:16 Varun Mohan It is a fork of VS Code, and yes,
- ▶ 1:40:45 Varun Mohan But one thing that we found was lacking was, you know, we were running into the limitations of building within the VS Code ecosystem on the VS Code platform. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:43:03 Alessio Fanelli Can you spell out what you couldn't do in VS code? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:26:51 Varun Mohan In VS Code.
- ▶ 2:44:50 Kevin Hou So we garnered a couple million users on our VS Code, JetBrains, Vim, Emacs extensions.
- ▶ 3:45:09 Shawn Wang I think what's interesting, you know, I was talking with Andrew Gao and I, I just, you know, I was just remembering that like Devin actually had a VS code, um, sort of interface inside of Devin, um, for, for, but it wasn't like the sort of…
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 2:53 Lenny Rachitsky It's available in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 0:38 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan It's a VS Code extension right now, but it's coming to JetBrains and NeoVim and CLI.
- ▶ 7:57 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan Even though it's a VS Code extension and a coding agent, MCP kind of lets it function as this everything agent where it can connect to, you know, whatever services and things like that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 Shawn Wang Weren't you tempted to for VS code though? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:03 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan A couple weeks ago about how a developer deployed a buggy Cloudflare worker and used a Sentry MCP server to pull a stack trace and ask Klein to sort of fix the bug using the stack trace information, connect to a GitHub MCP server to close…
- ▶ 19:22 Alessio Fanelli And you can do that because you're in VS Code, so you have the terminal, so you can do NPX, run the different servers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:24 unnamed speaker There's like, if you search Klein in the, in the VS code marketplace, it's like the entire page, just like forks of Klein.
- ▶ 59:50 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan Things that go outside the scope of software development or, you know, VS code extension.
- ▶ 1:02:30 unnamed speaker Pull things into context, letting the model decide what exactly to pull into context, as well as some hints along the way, kind of like a, like a map of what's going on, um, like ASTs, uh, abstract syntax trees, potentially what tabs they…
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 2:05 Aaron Levie Uh, it's an IDE that is built off of a VS code that lets you have agents that automate your coding, uh,
Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
Satya Nadella: Microsoft's AI Bets, Hyperscaling, Quantum Computing Breakthroughs · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:19 Satya Nadella Um, at the same time, uh, I look at the number of people who are forking a VS code and I say, man, we must have done something right. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:17 Satya Nadella I mean, I mean, I mean, that's why I always say what's your, if somebody asks me what's my favorite product, it's always, you know, VS code is one and the other one is Excel.
I built next gen AI Agents with MCP + Claude (STEAL my workflow)
- ▶ 6:05 Riley Brown And it is a familiar interface with, um, VS code.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 1:36:52 David Cramer And what I'm, I'm very interested to see what happens in the space with like VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, because Microsoft has a distribution.
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:38 Andrej Karpathy For example, if you want to download an app, say I go to VS Code, and I go to download, you can download VS Code, and you can run it on Windows, Linux, or Mac. 2 times in the scene
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 43:29 John Coogan This is their VS code competitor that you need to use to write Objective-C apps for the, uh, for if you're building iPhone software, uh, for building apps for Apple platforms, uh, developers can also plug in other models using API keys,…
Bootstrapper Hits $3.5m, 0 Team Members using new 3x Growth Formula
How I Built It: $9K/Month Micro-SaaS
- ▶ 4:49 Leandro Zubrezki Then I used VS Code as my coding editor.
- ▶ 11:25 Leandro Zubrezki DS code, I use it as my editor.
Cursor CEO: Going Beyond Code, Superintelligent AI Agents, And Why Taste Still Matters · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:12 Michael Truell They had to go and change things in the mainline VS code and expose different editor APIs to even just show that ghost text. 3 times in the scene
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