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Visual Studio is adding GMail-style predictive code completion, using an ML transformer model. Unlike GitHub Copilot, it seems to focus on smaller code snippets and leverages the surrounding code context. The examples generated seem less surprising.

Another interesting post where PVS-Studio explores running their tool on a major open source project, this time Android. https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0579/ It seems like a number of these checks would be straightforward additions to OSS compilers.

Neat debugging feature in Visual Studio for C++: you can use the debugger to only step through code you've written, saving you stepping through layers of the standard library! https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2018/06/29/announcing-jmc-stepping-in-visual-studio/