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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
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
Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:14 Varun Mohan Part of the reason why we, the product experience wasn't as good actually was because we were stuck in VS code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:27 Harry Stebbings You mentioned VS Code there.
- ▶ 31:16 Varun Mohan The reason why we forked the VS code, uh, editor was because we didn't have enough flexibility to build out the UI that we wanted, uh, to give out the new agent experience, but we were able to give that out entirely in JetBrains in the… 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 116 | With Sarah and Elad
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:04:56 Harry Stebbings And then last night or yesterday, whenever it was, Microsoft announced, obviously, that open sourcing VS code really 2 times in the scene
DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
- ▶ 6:31 unnamed speaker Well, okay, I'll do VS Code first, because that is the, uh, twelve billion dollar GitHub project that everyone can fork. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:33 unnamed speaker Like also if you, you get featured on the VS code, read me, like a lot of people will find them deep wiki as well.
- ▶ 16:20 Silas Alberti And we can like try to ask a question to be as code copays. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 Silas Alberti You can do if you have like more like semantic and deep research style, like, like what are the ways that people have implemented, you know, inline suggestions in their VS code forks?
Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
- ▶ 45:51 Lenny Rachitsky You build VS Code, which is what all these companies are working to build on.
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
- ▶ 0:57 Nathan Sobo We created the Atom editor previously, and as part of Atom, the shell around Atom, Electron, was spun out into its own thing, and Electron is what VS Code is built on and a bunch of other apps.
- ▶ 6:00 unnamed speaker Sometimes I do feel like I'm a worse programmer because I'm not phased by the state of VS code.
- ▶ 34:47 Nathan Sobo You're supposed to have the last word, but something that would make me happy is that instead of one more fork of VS code, people just had a great API for surfacing a great agent experience into a tool that was welcoming to that.
How to build SaaS App in a weekend using AI (Steal This)
- ▶ 22:19 Greg Isenberg Then he uses cursor or VS or CodePilot, you know, pick a tool of your choice to start adding the database.
Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 0:09 Leigh Marie Braswell Like if we own the IDE, we fork VS code.
- ▶ 18:43 Leigh Marie Braswell Like, if we own the IDE, we fork VS code.
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 24:57 Michael Truell We, um, now we, we use, uh, VS Code kind of as a base, like many browsers use Chromium as a base, um, and it worked off of that. 2 times in the scene
When Will Robot Deliveries Become the Default? | Daniel Singer on TBPN
- ▶ 10:47 John Coogan I thought, you know, we should get into the kind of VS code fork business, but unfortunately, it's a great business, especially today.
Building Durable Brands in Venture Capital | David Tisch on TBPN
- ▶ 16:11 John Coogan We've now seen the VS Code fork wars, uh, but it looks like there's a chance that OpenAI buys Windsurf for three billion, and I've been going back and forth with Jordy about this, like, is this game on for M&A in the wrapper market?
No Priors Ep. 112 | With OpenAI Deep Research, Isa Fulford
- ▶ 29:12 Isa Fulford Asking the model to do something, but then when maybe to go with the coding example, then maybe you're also in your, your VS code or whatever it is, your cursor and your, it's been doing something for you, but you can also like actually…
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- ▶ 6:52 Varun Mohan That meant VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Vim, Emacs. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Varun Mohan Why couldn't we have just done this on top of conventional IDs like Visual Studio code? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:04 Varun Mohan VS code is not very extensible. 2 times in the scene
Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
- ▶ 1:11:32 Aaron Levie We're enabling cursor for, uh, for the VS Code crowd, um, uh, to be able to use.
Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
- ▶ 30:36 Bret Taylor Basically integrates with the IDE, Visual Studio Code, to help you generate code more quickly.
Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
- ▶ 38:19 unnamed speaker I've been using Cloud 3.7 for, with Klein, um, and VS Code.
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