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VS Code’s new AI agent mode is an absolute game changer

Wow this changes everything

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Wow.

VS Code’s new agent editing mode is simply amazing. I think I might have to make it my main IDE again.

It’s your tireless autonomous coding companion with total understanding of your entire codebase — performing complex multi-step tasks at your command.

Competitors like Windsurf and Cursor have been stealing the show for weeks now, but it looks like VS Code and Copilot are finally fighting back.

It’s like to Cursor Composer and Windsurf Cascade but with massive advantages.

This is the real deal

Forget autocomplete, this is the real deal.

With agent mode you tell VS Code what to do with simple English and immediately it gets to work:

  • Analyzes your codebase

  • Plans out what needs to be done

  • Creates and edit files, run terminal commands…

Look what happened in this demo:

She just told Copilot

“add the ability to reorder tasks by dragging”

Literally a single sentence and that was all it took. She didn’t need to create a single UI component, didn’t edit a single line of code.

This isn’t code completion, this is project completion. This is the coding partner you always wanted.

Pretty similar UI to Cascade and Composer btw.

It’s developing for you at a high level and freeing you from all the mundane + repetitive + low-level work.

No sneak changes

You’re still in control:

Best,
Tari Ibaba
The Coding Beauty team