Microsoft declares 'reliability' a priority for Visual Studio AI

Microsoft says "reliability is the priority" for AI in Visual Studio – a reassurance that may raise eyebrows among developers already living with Copilot's quirks.

Microsoft has been relentlessly shoveling AI assistants into its venerable code wrangler in recent years, but has now stated: "We're shifting focus to reliability and refinement."

Sadly, that focus does not extend to dealing with the occasionally clunky and bloated set of tools that have evolved over decades. Instead, Microsoft is focusing on "tightening core workflows, improving agent stability, and building on the MCP foundations we've been laying."

While the company was careful not to commit to delivering anything, it said it was working to keep Copilot rapid as context grows, kicking off early work to integrate the Copilot CLI into Visual Studio Copilot, and taking initial steps toward a dedicated agent for multi-step task planning and execution.

It also said it would ...