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VS Code is a code editor used for writing and managing software. Hitechreports covers its role in developer workflows, including comparisons with AI coding tools and alternative editors.
A malicious version of the Claude Code extension sat on Cursor's VS Code marketplace for roughly 11 hours, reaching up to 5,000 developers with a persistent SSH backdoor. Anthropic denies any breach of its own systems.
Google's Antigravity editor runs Gemini 3 and Claude as autonomous coding agents inside a VS Code fork, free during its public preview, though usage caps and server errors have frustrated early adopters.
A month-long comparison from an XDA Developers writer found Anthropic's Claude Code outperforming a VS Code and GitHub Copilot setup for building features and fixing bugs, though usage limits still send work back to the editor.
Claude Code isn’t a note-taking app. It’s an AI agent built for code — and yet, in a real-world test across a sprawling Obsidian vault, it outperformed both VS Code and a local LLM at turning fragmented thoughts into linked, filed, context-aware notes.