The Rise of Agent Sessions: VS Code, Codex, and PowerShell
About this event
AI coding tools are shifting from chat prompts to persistent agent sessions: work you can start, monitor, resume, review, and build on.
In this livestream, we’ll look at the new VS Code Agents experience, compare it with OpenAI Codex, and then drop into PowerShell to show how the same agent-session idea can become an operator workflow.
We’ll cover:
- What “agent sessions” are and why they matter
- How VS Code and Codex are approaching the same pattern
- How PSUnplugged runs Codex tasks from PowerShell
- A prototype path for running Copilot SDK sessions from PowerShell too
- Why shells may become a powerful surface for managing AI agents
This is a practical, demo-driven look at where developer tooling is heading: not just chatting with AI, but operating agents as real units of work.
About Doug
Doug Finke is a 16-time Microsoft MVP and creator of the PowerShell AI module — bringing chat and NLP directly into your scripts — plus tools like PowerShell + Excel integration. With 40+ years in tech (punch cards to AI), Doug now focuses on building autonomous tools and teaching others how to think with AI, not just code around it.
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