Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.

Visual Studio Code 1.129 adds a dedicated process for running AI agent sessions and an experimental docked editor for reviewing agent-generated changes.

Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, its first general-purpose artificial intelligence model, giving developers access ...

Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter model, can be customized through Tinker and supports a 1-million-token context window, but ...

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