An AI agent that understands the problem beats one that just gets a task. Dalia Abo Sheasha explains why in this clip from VSLive! MSHQ. Dive into the full session: https://msft.it/6041abwVF
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Your skills matter more than ever in the AI era. AI doesn't replace experienced developers, it makes their experience more valuable. Mads Kristensen jumps into this key conversation: https://msft.it/6041abOkN
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🧠⚙️ “Derived classes must override this method.” Famous last words. 😅 Raymond Chen dives into a classic C++ design challenge: how do you actually enforce that derived classes implement required behavior instead of relying on comments and hope? Explore interface contracts, inheritance patterns, and compile-time enforcement techniques that make code reviews a little less terrifying. 🔥 📚 Read the blog: https://msft.it/6046abxVw #CPP #MSVC #SoftwareEngineering
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The best debugging prompt starts with the symptom, not the code. Yeojun Han makes the case that you don't need to tell AI where the bug is, just give it the evidence and let it investigate: https://msft.it/6044ab30Y
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Grok 4.7 is now available in Visual Studio. This latest reasoning model from xAI builds on Grok 4.6 for agentic coding and complex, multistep workflows. Select it from the model picker in Copilot Chat to get started. Learn more: https://msft.it/6043a5raU #VisualStudio #GitHubCopilot #AI
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⚙️ C++ devs, fresh compiler candy just dropped! 🍬 The September 2026 MSVC Build Tools Preview update brings the latest fixes and enhancements across the compiler frontend, optimizer, linker, STL, and build tooling targeting v14.52. 🚀 If you're chasing faster builds, better codegen, improved conformance, and fewer compiler surprises, this preview is worth a look. 🔍 Dive into the details and try it yourself: https://msft.it/6047abxKx #cpp #MSVC #VisualStudio #CPlusPlus
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Natural language to SQL looked great in the demos back in 2023, until developers saw the queries it was actually writing. Even AI models trained specifically on T-SQL got it wrong. Bob Ward gets into why: https://msft.it/6040abzFy
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Give an AI agent tools and context, and it stops just answering questions and starts taking action. Jon Galloway gets into it in this clip from VSLive! MSHQ. Dive in further with Jon: https://msft.it/6049aZljd