--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'Cooking with Agents in VS Code — Liam Hampton, Microsoft' description: >- One codebase, three problems, three agents running at the same time. Liam Hampton from Microsoft demos the full loop in VS Code: a local agent with Claude Opus writing and fixing unit tests with him in the loop, a background agent using a git work tree to build a front end from a GitHub issue without him touching it, and a cloud agent running in GitHub Actions to make the repo open source friendly. The talk is a framework for knowing which agent path to pick and why. Local when you want hands on iteration. Background when the task is big and you can tolerate being half in half out. Cloud when you genuinely do not care how it gets done. VS Code handles all three from one interface, with Copilot, Claude, and third party agents accessible from the same control plane. Speaker info: - https://x.com/liamchampton - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-conroy-hampton/ - https://github.com/liamchampton --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/dyHpnnlkTc8-cooking-with-agents-in-vs-code Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T13:21:08.949Z' language: null children: [] videoId: dyHpnnlkTc8 durationSeconds: 1024 publishedAt: '2026-05-21T17:00:06.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 26 endSeconds: 108 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=26' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 26 endSeconds: 108 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=26' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 119 endSeconds: 249 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=119' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 119 endSeconds: 249 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=119' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 249 endSeconds: 260 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=249' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 260 endSeconds: 349 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=260' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 260 endSeconds: 349 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=260' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 360 endSeconds: 495 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=360' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 360 endSeconds: 495 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=360' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 506 endSeconds: 586 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=506' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 597 endSeconds: 699 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=597' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 699 endSeconds: 709 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=699' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 709 endSeconds: 799 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=709' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 709 endSeconds: 799 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=709' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 709 endSeconds: 799 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=709' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 709 endSeconds: 799 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=709' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 810 endSeconds: 920 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=810' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 810 endSeconds: 920 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=810' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 931 endSeconds: 1024 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8?t=931' heldReason: rights --- # Cooking with Agents in VS Code — Liam Hampton, Microsoft One codebase, three problems, three agents running at the same time. Liam Hampton from Microsoft demos the full loop in VS Code: a local agent with Claude Opus writing and fixing unit tests with him in the loop, a background agent using a git work tree to build a front end from a GitHub issue without him touching it, and a cloud agent running in GitHub Actions to make the repo open source friendly. The talk is a framework for knowing which agent path to pick and why. Local when you want hands on iteration. Background when the task is big and you can tolerate being half in half out. Cloud when you genuinely do not care how it gets done. VS Code handles all three from one interface, with Copilot, Claude, and third party agents accessible from the same control plane. Speaker info: - https://x.com/liamchampton - https://www.linkedin.com/in/liam-conroy-hampton/ - https://github.com/liamchampton --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/dyHpnnlkTc8-cooking-with-agents-in-vs-code Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/dyHpnnlkTc8 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.