The brand-new Visual Studio 2022 v17.12 lets developers specify the AI model they want to use with the baked-in GitHub Copilot, but some devs are clamoring for more options, such as the ...

Copilot's 'Auto' model picker in VS Code and Visual Studio currently routes to whatever model is most available and policy-compliant--not the one best matched to your prompt--while Microsoft/GitHub ...

In VS Code chat, AI agents can now ask follow-up questions and generate Mermaid diagrams, and Anthropic Claude models show their detailed thought process.