Rob Lourens

🚀 We've been working on the VS Code Agents app - a companion app shipped alongside @code Insiders, built for agent-native dev. ✨ Highlights this release include: Claude Agent support, more shared state with @code, & web integration. 📖 Learn more: aka.ms/VSCode/Agents/…

Software engineering in 2026: I miss writing code

Spotify is once again putting AI slop in my Release Radar. It got there because the uploader somehow was able to attribute this to a bunch of legitimate artists who I'm sure had nothing to do with this.

Now posting nothing twice as efficiently with Buffer

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Community notes good

@typewriteralley Let's put them back :(

🚀 We've finalized the Language Model and Chat Participant API in VS @code Insiders! These APIs allow you to build @github Copilot Extensions in VS Code and publish to the VS Marketplace. 📄 Docs: code.visualstudio.com/api/extension-…. We're so excited to see what you build ✨

There's an eclipse happening all the time, if you're in the right spot in the solar system. It just rarely intersects with Earth. In the future we will fly a little space ship out to the moon's shadow for vacation.

@shanselman @markrussinovich I don't know, I haven't seen it in years

Having a argument with @markrussinovich. Do you have a bunch of files and icons on your desktop?

@danlehnermusic Not exactly a band, but same format. "List of SNL Cast Members" has got to be one of the largest en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_S…

I think my unironic all-time favorite data visualization template is "Wikipedia timeline of band members"

Gemini puts forth a decent attempt at the "upside down bike problem", the hardest problem in AI image generation, but we aren't there yet.

I spent the last few weeks studying plans for the new city between SF & Sacramento proposed by @CAForever As a California native, I've never been more captivated by a vision for my home state in my lifetime Here's a series documeting what I've learned: devonzuegel.com/post/the-new-c…

@MagickNET @github I expect this error if the VS Code Insiders version doesn't match the extension version, double-check that VS Code itself is updated too

@roblourens @github They are both running on the latest pre-releases 😁

I keep seeing this in @GitHub Copilot for the last two days: Error from provider: Right-hand side of 'instanceof' is not an object Anyone else seeing this or is it just me?

When you get a recaptcha in a different language, and it becomes a vocabulary test 😫

Excited about a new debug feature in @code for all languages: Triggered Breakpoints! Triggered breakpoints are activated only when another breakpoint gets hit. Really useful when looking for that one bug in code with lots of events or loops:

Midjourney 6 is impressive, but it still can't consistently solve the "holding a bike upside-down" test, believed by experts to be the hardest problem in AI image generation

@paulg Bicycle for the mind? 😭😭😭

This is not an implausible theory. Imagine how absolutely horrified Steve Jobs would have been if it turns out to be correct.