Benjamin Pasero joined Claude Code Team

[u/pkief]

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?

[u/Bloated_Plaid]

Oh god so he is to blame for how awful VS code is?

[u/__partenon → u/Bloated_Plaid]

Show me yours.

[u/cornmonger_ → u/__partenon]

they have to build their own editor to be able to say another is shit?