How VS Code Went from Monthly to Weekly Releases with AI — Harald Kirschner

תקציר מקורי באנגליתAfter 10 years of monthly releases, VS Code now ships weekly. It wasn't more AI that made it work. It was rebuilding the whole system around it. Harald Kirschner, principal product manager on VS Code at Microsoft, explains how a small team shipping to more than 50 million users moved from monthly to weekly releases with AI agents, and what broke along the way. He covers three stages: shipping faster (agent-ready codebases, skills, TypeScript Go's 10x faster builds, letting agents drive the app), holding quality (mandatory AI code review, AI issue triage, error stacks that turn into auto-fix PRs, staged rollouts) and learning faster (VSC-Bench evals, daily prototyping and smaller squads). In this talk: • Code survival: how the share of agent-written code that gets committed rose from 55% to