Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People

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Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People

Day
Day 3 — Session Day 2
Time
1:30pm-1:50pm
Room
Expo Stage 2
Track
Expo Stage 2

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About this session

A ~40-person team ships VS Code weekly to millions of users. Models got good enough to lean on, and leaning in is exactly what broke our process. This talk is the part most AI talks skip: what you have to rebuild after agents start working. We had to scale three things at once: how fast we ship, how we hold quality, and how fast we learn, and each one we fixed revealed the next. I'll walk through the harnesses, evals, and self-healing systems that keep velocity from becoming regression, and the patterns you can steal.

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