Garry Tan no longer uses Visual Studio, relying entirely on AI agents
“For like, I don't use Visual Studio at all. Like there's no reason to, like when I can talk to my agent and my agent can do this, right?”
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.”
Dohmke: Visual Studio was a billion-dollar business in 2018
“Back, back in 2018 being Visual Studio, you know, in itself the IDE, you know, the old school IDE in itself, a billion dollar business”
PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio reached 750,000 peak free installs
“Prior to me actually making it into a freemium tool, it was a free tool, and that had, I think at its peak, about 750,000 installs.”
Microsoft included Driscoll's open-source tool in the Visual Studio installer
“They got ahold of these guys at Microsoft, and then eventually Microsoft promoted it. Like it was, you know, on their website, and it eventually was in the installer for a little while, that kind of thing. You could actually select a feature and install my pro…”