Oct 03, 2026

How VS Code Went from Monthly to Weekly Releases with AI — Harald Kirschner

Harald Kirschner, principal product manager on VS Code at Microsoft, explains how a small team serving more than 50 million users moved from monthly to weekly releases by rebuilding its whole delivery system around AI agents. He covers faster shipping through agent-ready codebases, skills, and a 10x faster TypeScript Go build, quality practices like mandatory AI code review, AI triage, auto-fix PRs and staged rollouts, and faster learning through VSC-Bench evals and daily prototyping.

Apr 22, 2026

Beyond Line Charts • Yao Yue • YOW! 2025

Yao Yue challenges the dominance of line charts in telemetry visualization, arguing that their time-centric nature and misleading interpolations often obscure insights. She proposes a 'form follows function' approach, advocating for visualizations tailored to the data's shape, the metric's type (e.g., step charts for counters, heatmaps for histograms), and the specific, often 'timeless,' operational questions being asked. The key is to transform time-series data into more flexible formats like panel data to derive clearer, more direct answers.