Brigit Murtaugh
Special guest
Principal Product Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft with focuses on GitHub Copilot and remote development. Extremely passionate about improving software development tools and processes and uniting people and technology as an advocate for the end user.
Brigit Murtaugh has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Agent-First Development Workflows in VS Code with Brigit Murtaugh
May 25th, 2026 | 40 mins 46 secs
Explore VS Code’s new Agents window — a familiar, focused UI that puts agent-first workflows front and center across repos, harnesses, and machines. It centralizes session management with worktrees, integrated previews, diffs, run tasks and PR flows so agents can iterate across projects while you review, customize extensions, and switch to the editor to edit.
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The Future of Coding Agents in VS Code
September 22nd, 2025 | 22 mins 24 secs
background tasks, coding agents, github coding agent
Brigit and Josh join the podcast to talk about the latest enhancements to coding agents, aka background tasks, aka background agents in VS Code. They break down why you would use them, how to use them, and their future.