You don't have to give anything up to use Claude Code, and it may make programming a lot easier for you.

VS Code’s terminal process allows users to run scripts and commands within the editor environment, improving workflow efficiency. It provides a command-line interface for code compilation, version ...

VS Code 1.115 introduced a preview Agents app in VS Code Insiders. VS Code 1.116 added persistent debug logs for current and past agent sessions. Both releases expanded how agents work with terminals, ...

Anthropic's Claude Code for VS Code has surpassed OpenAI's Codex extension in Visual Studio Code Marketplace installs and review volume despite launching later. OpenAI positions Codex as an IDE ...

Microsoft shipped Intelligent Terminal 0.1 at Build 2026 on June 2 — a separate, open-source application that puts an AI agent pane inside a forked version of Windows Terminal. The project, authored ...