June 29 – July 2, 2026 · San Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed

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

Harald Kirschner

When
Wednesday, July 11:30 PM – 1:50 PM · 20 min
Where
Expo Stage 2 NWSan Francisco, CA · imported from ai.engineer's public schedule feed
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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.

Speaker

Harald Kirschner
Harald Kirschner

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

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.

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