We're all Builders now (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2025 with Amanda Silver, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division. Amanda leads product, design, user research, and engineering systems for some of the tools you use every day. We discuss the latest AI announcements from Microsoft at Build 2025, how AI is reshaping development tools, what’s next for VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub’s evolution, and even emerging editors like Windsurf that are forking the VS Code ecosystem.

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• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Build 2025

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Retool (00:01:03)

https://retool.com/agents

3. Start the show! (00:03:07)

4. Microsoft has changed (00:06:31)

5. Hostility toward Microsoft (00:12:46)

6. Sponsor: Heroku (00:18:40)

https://www.heroku.com/changelogpodcast

7. VS Code as a distrobution platform (00:21:46)

8. Is developer tooling a lousy business? (00:26:55)

9. Guard rails for AI (00:30:46)

10. AI vs AI (00:35:11)

11. Code modernization with AI (00:36:58)

12. Autonomous agents (00:44:22)

13. Sponsor: Outshift by Cisco (00:46:40)

https://agntcy.org

14. "Secret Agent" should be a thing (00:47:44)

15. Orchestrating AI (00:54:17)

16. Predictions for this time next year (00:57:32)

17. VS Code vs Windsurf (VS Code forks) (01:02:57)

18. Is Windsurf competition? (01:06:09)

19. Software is not built in a chat (01:09:44)

20. Wrapping up (01:12:29)

21. Changelog.com/live !!!! (01:12:38)

https://changelog.com/live