How VS Code Went from Monthly to Weekly Releases with AI — Harald Kirschner
AI Engineer — Oct 3, 2026 — talk
Why watch
Harald Kirschner explains how VS Code's team rebuilt their entire development system to enable weekly releases instead of monthly. The key insight is that AI wasn't the primary driver—rather, they restructured everything around AI agents: agent-ready codebases, skills architecture, mandatory AI code review, error stack auto-fix PRs, and turning 51 billion daily telemetry events into auto-filed issues. The talk covers three stages: shipping faster, holding quality, and learning faster, with code survival rising from 55% to 86% for agent-written code.