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title: VS Code 2026 Ships Native AI Pair-Review in Editor
description: The latest VS Code release adds an AI review pass built into the diff view, no extension required.
date: 2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
category: software-news
tags: vs-code, developer-tools
---

Placeholder fixture post — Phase 1 content-model check for the `software-news` category. Replaced
with real reporting once the content-production workflow starts (Phase 5 of the build plan).