Peng Lyu
Special guest
Hey! I'm an Engineering Manager on the VS Code team, though I still stumble a bit when saying "EM". Thanks to our team's unique culture, I dedicate the majority of my time to engineering, tech lead, and product work.
My team owns notebooks/jupyter, search, remote development, vscode.dev, and more. This year I led the effort to integrate the Copilot coding agent (cloud) and GitHub Copilot CLI into VS Code, and we're exploring new UI paradigms like Agent Sessions to reshape how developers interact with agents.
I joined the team back in 2016 when they started growing the Redmond office. Started by working on Monaco Editor (the core editor) and pushing for its adoption in the community, then built the commenting system that powers the GitHub Pull Request integration. In 2019, I kicked off native notebook support for VS Code, which eventually led to my EM role.
Outside of work, I enjoy self hosting and building mobile apps to manage my homelab servers, including Agmente, Proxmobo(iOS, Android) for Proxmox management and Uptime Kuma Manager (iOS, Android) for monitoring.
Peng Lyu has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Orchestrating Multiple Agents in VS Code with Ben & Peng
January 12th, 2026 | 40 mins 31 secs
In this episode James sits down with Ben and Peng from the VS Code team to unpack a year of AI evolution inside the editor — from Copilot Free to the new agent sessions UI. They explain the three agent flavors (interactive local, background, cloud), why agent orchestration matters, and how VS Code is reshaping UX so you can run parallel sessions, delegate work, and treat agent outputs like inbox items to triage. Key takeaways: build context in local chats then delegate to background/cloud, harden projects with linting/tests to improve agent reliability, and expect session results to include artifacts beyond code (tests, screenshots, videos). If you want practical tips for embedding agents into your workflow and a peek at where VS Code is headed, this conversation is a must-listen.