Visual Studio July Update — Meet the New Agent, Powered by the GitHub Copilot SDK

Yesterday I tested the “regular” agent, and it spectacularily failed to open and edit a loaded project file ~15 times in a loop until i stopped it, unloaded the project manually, after which it could do its unnecessary two-line “fix”

We are in the future.

You just reminded me that I haven’t opened VS since 2023. I’ll make sure to disable my internet the next time I open it so it doesn’t try to download this AI crap onto my computer. I already got rid of copilot and onedrive