Visual Studio Code
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My First Million 3 
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2026 43 mentions in 22 episodes 2 per episode
- Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- How Cursor Built One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies
- Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
- Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- I built a $14K/month SaaS using Discord
- AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
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2025 195 mentions in 78 episodes 3 per episode
- Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
- The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent
- ⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
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2024 41 mentions in 22 episodes 2 per episode
- Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024)
- I can’t believe we built an IOS app with AI in under 33 min (V0, Cursor AI, Xcode)
- 0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- Building the Silicon Brain - Drew Houston of Dropbox
- Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
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2023 22 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- No Priors Ep. 10 | With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
- The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- No Priors Ep. 33 | With Replit's CEO & Co-Founder Amjad Masad
- RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
- 6 Oil Drilling Companies Pay Him to Map Hard to Quantify Oil Well Pay Zone's
- AI and the Future of Knowledge Work with Hebbia’s CEO George Sivulka
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2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
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7 statements about Visual Studio Code, every show
Microsoft employees initially viewed Visual Studio Code as a toy
“And when Visual Studio Code first was released inside the company, there was a feeling that this is a toy. This is not for real developers, because the real developers, they need Visual Studio, which is why Visual Studio Code is such a complicated long name, b…”
Rieseberg: Claude Cowork's extensibility mirrors the key driver of VS Code's success
“My personal belief is that the hackability and the extendability has like played a pretty big role, right? You can hook in Visual Studio Code to like almost any workload. It's so easy to hack on, so easy to build extensions for it. And I think cold work might …”
Microsoft CoreAI unites Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub, and Azure
“And so you think about the new core core AI organization, you've got Visual Studio Code, GitHub, and parts of Azure, all in one.”
Taylor: Software engineering will become operating code-generating machines
“I do think the act of creating software is going to transform from typing into a terminal or typing into Visual Studio code to operating a code generating machine. I think that is the future of creating software, but I think operating a code generating machine…”
Visual Studio Code was one of GitHub's largest projects before acquisition
“VS Code, the editor, was already on GitHub, and in fact, one of the biggest projects on GitHub in terms of number of contributions.”
Mohan: Windsurf's UI tripled code acceptance rate over VS Code
“And what we realized is immediately by porting over to windsurf, our acceptance rate tripled same ML models. It just tripled.”
Howard: Cursor and VS Code shoehorn AI into legacy software paradigms
“It's like a convenience over the top of this incredibly complicated system that full-time, sophisticated software engineers have designed over the past few decades in a totally different environment as a way to build software, you know. And so we're trying to,…”