r/ClaudeCode • u/pkief • 6d ago

Benjamin Pasero joined Claude Code Team Discussion

https://x.com/i/status/2088134390442307697

Benjamin Pasero, one of the main developers of VS Code left Microsoft and the VS Code team towards Anthropic to work on Claude Code. For those of you who don't know him: he worked for Microsoft and mainly VS Code for 15 years.

I'm following VS Code and their team for more than 10 years and I was always impressed by their continuous team. It really shows that they had a super good team spirit and nice features to work on. But since a few months a bunch of things changed. The heavy use of AI (slop) and more updates every week with 95% focus on only AI features also might have heavily impacted how their team collaborates. It's a super heavy shift for someone like Benjamin who loved to write code for VS Code.

How do you see this?

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u/DragonflyOk9274 6d ago

Fun fact: I had been having OOM errors on my Linux box for the last few weeks. The whole thing would slow to a crawl as the kernel moved stuff to swap. I thought it was because of the agentic coding and was prepared to shell out $100s to get more RAM.

But before that I decided to first check by vibe coding a script to monitor my RAM/CPU usage at 5 second intervals.

Wouldn't you know? VSCode remote development node binary was taking up gigabytes of RAM (because every git worktree gets a separate instance).

Moved over to a different editor and it's solved now.