VS Code moves its AI-agents into a separate process

Until now, the AI agent in the editor was a guest in the room - it lived inside the window itself and died with it. The new version takes it out into its own process. A change that looks small at first glance but says something big about the direction.

The mechanics are simple, but the direction isn't small. By moving the agent into a separate process, you stop treating it as a feature of the editor and start treating it as a worker with a life of its own - you can move it, hand it several tasks, watch it from the side. That's exactly the difference between 'a button that writes code' and 'something you orchestrate'. The tools are rearranging themselves around the second idea.

For anyone building with agents, this is good news - more control over parallel work, less waiting for one agent to finish. But that same freedom means more things running at once without you watching them. Orchestration comes as convenience and responsibility in one package.

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