341 - Foundry Toolkit goes GA: Building agents with code

About this episode

This episode discusses the Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, highlighting its features for AI development workflows.

The Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code - formerly the AI Toolkit - is Microsoft's answer to fragmented AI development workflows, bringing model selection, prompt iteration, agent building, evaluation, and production tracing into a single VS Code extension. In this episode, we walk through the full feature surface. Whether you're picking your first frontier model or shipping a hosted agent to Microsoft Foundry, this is the episode for you! (00:00) - Intro and catching up. (03:55) - Show content starts. Show links - Foundry Toolkit overview - Give us feedback!

People in this episode

Hosts: Tobias Zimmergren, Jussi Roine

Topics covered

• AI development
• Visual Studio Code
• agent building
• model selection
• prompt iteration

Keywords

• Foundry Toolkit
• Visual Studio Code
• AI development
• agent building
• model selection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Foundry Toolkit, Visual Studio Code, AI Toolkit

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