Visual Studio Code, every mention
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every year anyone Varun Mohan 9Lenny Rachitsky 3Ryan J. Salva 2Michael Truell 2Bret Taylor 1Amjad Masad 1Alexander Embirikos 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Visual Studio Code comes up
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.
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- ▶ 3:38 Lenny Rachitsky It's available in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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 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.
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.
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
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
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 9:23 Amjad Masad So Cursor, uh, is a fork of VS code that's made, um, that has really awesome, uh, AI tools, but that's an editor.
The role of AI in new product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub)
- ▶ 12:15 Ryan J. Salva Now, when you are in the editor, it could be VS Code, it could be IntelliJ, it could be
- ▶ 23:20 Ryan J. Salva Uh, we were able to, with the kind of partnership of some of our friends over on the Microsoft side of things, partner with our friends in Visual Studio Code, be like, Hey, there's not really an extensibility yet in your editor for this…