Definition
Plain language
A popular free code editor from Microsoft.
As stated in the literature
Visual Studio Code, a widely used extensible source-code editor; the host environment for agentic coding extensions like Cline and Cursor, and a target application in computer-use benchmarks.
Also called: Visual Studio Code
Why it matters: As a hugely popular coding home base, it's where many AI coding assistants live and a realistic environment for testing software-operating agents.
For example, a programmer might write Python in VS Code while an AI extension suggests the next lines and fixes bugs inline.
Heard on the show
“It's the VS Code example.”Episode 066 — Why Giving an AI Agent More Tools Can Make It Worse at Using a Computer