Rob Lourens
@roblourens.bsky.social
VS Code and VS Code accessories
Spotify is once again putting AI slop in my Release Radar. It got there because the uploader somehow was able to attribute this to a bunch of legitimate artists who I'm sure had nothing to do with this.
October 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Spotify is once again putting AI slop in my Release Radar. It got there because the uploader somehow was able to attribute this to a bunch of legitimate artists who I'm sure had nothing to do with this.
Nano banana unfortunately fails the upside down bike test
August 31, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Nano banana unfortunately fails the upside down bike test
The two worst people you know...
June 6, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The two worst people you know...
Veo 3 fails the upside-down bicycle test
May 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Veo 3 fails the upside-down bicycle test
Suno v4.5 sucked into a bagel suno.com/s/u46wTy3ali...
suno.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Suno v4.5 sucked into a bagel suno.com/s/u46wTy3ali...
Cool stuff happening with Copilot in VS Code Insiders right now...
January 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Cool stuff happening with Copilot in VS Code Insiders right now...
You can add a chat participant that users can talk to directly with "@" in the chat panel, or your extension can just make requests to the language model to drive whatever other features you want. And with the free tier, this is accessible to all of your users.
December 18, 2024 at 6:34 PM
You can add a chat participant that users can talk to directly with "@" in the chat panel, or your extension can just make requests to the language model to drive whatever other features you want. And with the free tier, this is accessible to all of your users.
Now everyone can just use Copilot in VS Code for free 😊
Extension authors should check out our chat API which lets you add cool AI features to your extension! code.visualstudio.com/api/extensio...
Extension authors should check out our chat API which lets you add cool AI features to your extension! code.visualstudio.com/api/extensio...
December 18, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Now everyone can just use Copilot in VS Code for free 😊
Extension authors should check out our chat API which lets you add cool AI features to your extension! code.visualstudio.com/api/extensio...
Extension authors should check out our chat API which lets you add cool AI features to your extension! code.visualstudio.com/api/extensio...
Reposted by Rob Lourens
Reposted by Rob Lourens
Use the builtin Shortcuts app, and you can have this menubar shortcut
December 6, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Use the builtin Shortcuts app, and you can have this menubar shortcut
We published a new extension guide for using VS Code's new LanguageModelTool API! code.visualstudio.com/api/extensio... s/o @ntrogh.bsky.social
LanguageModelTool API
A guide to creating a language model tool and how to implement tool calling in a chat extension
code.visualstudio.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:56 PM
We published a new extension guide for using VS Code's new LanguageModelTool API! code.visualstudio.com/api/extensio... s/o @ntrogh.bsky.social
It's pretty fresh, but using this library lets you turn a couple hundred lines of code into just a handful, and all the chat participant features just light up "for free"! WIP
November 20, 2024 at 2:02 PM
It's pretty fresh, but using this library lets you turn a couple hundred lines of code into just a handful, and all the chat participant features just light up "for free"! WIP
But, it turns out that building a really good chat extension is kind of hard, because working with LLMs is hard, and because our API has a lot of features 😇
So I just published this library to help you build chat extensions: github.com/microsoft/vs...
So I just published this library to help you build chat extensions: github.com/microsoft/vs...
GitHub - microsoft/vscode-chat-extension-utils: A library for building VS Code chat participant extensions
A library for building VS Code chat participant extensions - microsoft/vscode-chat-extension-utils
github.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:02 PM
But, it turns out that building a really good chat extension is kind of hard, because working with LLMs is hard, and because our API has a lot of features 😇
So I just published this library to help you build chat extensions: github.com/microsoft/vs...
So I just published this library to help you build chat extensions: github.com/microsoft/vs...
So we have this VS Code extension API for building Copilot Chat extensions: code.visualstudio.com/api/extensio... and a bunch of chat extensions have been published over the past 6 months. Sweet! 💯
Chat extensions
A guide to creating an AI extension in Visual Studio Code
code.visualstudio.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:02 PM
So we have this VS Code extension API for building Copilot Chat extensions: code.visualstudio.com/api/extensio... and a bunch of chat extensions have been published over the past 6 months. Sweet! 💯
Trying out this interaction for changing the target of a Copilot Chat message in VS Code
November 19, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Trying out this interaction for changing the target of a Copilot Chat message in VS Code
oh wait no animated gifs?
November 19, 2024 at 10:00 AM
oh wait no animated gifs?
That's one worth the effort!
November 17, 2024 at 1:45 PM
That's one worth the effort!
I guess James S.A. Corey is on that list as well (which is actually two people)
November 16, 2024 at 1:37 AM
I guess James S.A. Corey is on that list as well (which is actually two people)
Neal Stephenson is the only author who I've read pretty much to completion. But I don't really know why, because all of his latest books have disappointed me one way or another. Now the nytimes review of his latest starts with this paragraph, which describes exactly how I've felt about others. 😩
November 16, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Neal Stephenson is the only author who I've read pretty much to completion. But I don't really know why, because all of his latest books have disappointed me one way or another. Now the nytimes review of his latest starts with this paragraph, which describes exactly how I've felt about others. 😩
Wear a mask! 6 ft!
November 8, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Wear a mask! 6 ft!
Now posting nothing twice as efficiently with Buffer
November 7, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Now posting nothing twice as efficiently with Buffer
I broke the chat progress spinner. Enough ❤️ and I'll keep it this way 😅
November 7, 2024 at 11:56 PM
I broke the chat progress spinner. Enough ❤️ and I'll keep it this way 😅