Dear Microsoft: Stop sticking your AI in my IDE

Dear Microsoft, I don’t want to have a love-hate relationship with Visual Studio Code, but you’re making it really hard. Once upon a time, Visual Studio Code was just an editor. You configured it with add-ons to make it do whatever job you needed. And that was great!...

The gravitational pull of AI

Last year Anthropic gave away one of the most successful things it has ever built. And, no, I’m not talking about Claude. I’m referring to MCP, the now ubiquitous Model Context Protocol, which Anthropic donated to the Linux Foundation’s new Agentic AI Foundation⁠. At...