Microsoft employees initially viewed Visual Studio Code as a toy
Felix Rieseberg · Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction · Apr 10, 2026 · at 46:23
Felix Rieseberg, an Engineering Manager at Anthropic leading Claude Cowork, reflects on his past experience working at Microsoft on Electron and Visual Studio Code.
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“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, because Microsoft also had this big application for real developers with all kinds of like very, very advanced tooling.”
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