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Claude Extended Thinking Mode Is Now Generally Available: What Developers Need to Know

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Claude Extended Thinking Mode Is Now Generally Available: What Developers Need to Know

Introduction Anthropic made Extended Thinking generally available for the Claude API on June 26, 2026. Extended Thinking is a mode where Claude works through a problem step by step before generating a final answer — thinking through intermediate reasoning that is visible to developers but not included in the response token count in the same … Read more

GitHub Copilot Agent Mode: Autonomous Multi-Step Coding Tasks Now Available in VS Code

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GitHub Copilot Agent Mode: Autonomous Multi-Step Coding Tasks Now Available in VS Code

Introduction GitHub released Copilot Agent Mode for VS Code on June 25, 2026 — moving GitHub Copilot from a suggestion-based assistant to a system that autonomously plans and executes multi-step coding tasks. The difference is not incremental. Traditional Copilot suggests code as you type. Agent Mode accepts a natural language task, decides which files to … Read more