How VS Code team uses AI
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- markdown
- Domain
- documentation
Research direction
No target file or test is specified. Start by reviewing the linked VS Code blog post and the repository's existing documentation structure, then define where the continuously updated material should live and what information it should cover. Done means publishing documentation about how the VS Code team uses AI that can be maintained over time.
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Description
@annasoracco suggested docs around "How the VS Code team uses AI" as this is a growing area of interest from customers and in the industry.
Similar to the info we have in https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/03/13/how-VS-Code-Builds-with-AI but continuously updated
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- Avg merge
- 9h 7m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 117
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