Microsoft’s VS Code team moved to weekly releases after 10 years of monthly — and credits AI for making it possible

The VS Code product lead Pierce Boggan describes how GitHub Copilot and custom AI agents enabled the team to shift from monthly to weekly releases after 10 years. Key changes include: PMs now prototype features directly as PRs using AI, commit velocity jumped to 100+ per day, an agent-based triage pipeline handles issue sorting and deduplication, and a custom 'demonstrate' agent self-validates features by launching VS Code and taking screenshots. Boggan argues that 'agent-ready codebase' is the critical meta-skill for engineering teams, as AI blurs the boundary between product thinking and building.