Harald Kirschner

Harald Kirschner

Principal Product Manager · Microsoft

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Harald Kirschner is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot AI coding experiences for tens of millions of developers. He is active in the VS Code and developer-experience ecosystem and has spoken on agent memory, MCP, and AI coding tools.

Sessions (2)

Day 31:30pm-1:50pmExpo Stage 2 NW
Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People
Day 23:20pm-3:40pmTrack M · Room 2001
Surviving Your Own Velocity: How VS Code Ships Weekly with 40 People

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Harald Kirschner is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft working on AI agent experiences in VS Code and GitHub Copilot. His recent talks and blog posts cover how multi-agent workflows, MCP (including MCP Apps), agent memory, and orchestration are built and shipped in production, grounded in the VS Code team's own use of agents to build the editor.

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Demo-drivenBattle-testedBig-picture

Recent talks (5)

VS Code Live: Agent Sessions Day - KeynoteVS Code Live: Agent Sessions Day · Feb 2026Behind the Scenes of Building VS CodeCoffee with Developers (WeAreDevelopers) · Jun 2026Devs: Don't Kill My Vibe with Harald KirschnerReady. Or Not. Episode 4 · Feb 2026Building agent memory for VS Code with Harald KirschnerVS Code YouTube / VS Code Insiders · Oct 2025Real World Development with GitHub Copilot and VS CodeAI Engineer World's Fair 2025 · Aug 2025

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