A developer on the VS Code team reflects on the evolving 'holy crap' moments in AI-assisted development, tracing the progression from GitHub CoPilot ghost text completion, to ChatGPT chat era, to CoPilot edits (single-file natural language edits), to multi-file agents. The speaker highlights how agent-mode enabled building iOS apps in Swift with no prior Swift knowledge, and notes a significant capability step-change starting late November with newer models like Claude and OpenAI releases. Since early December, the team has been heavily relying on agents for everything.
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