Hello, Rafael here - every week I cover interesting challenges and developments that I’ve come across recently through the lens of an engineer building AI systems. Subscribe to get weekly issues 👇 There has been a flurry of AI-powered apps and AI features in the last couple of years. Incumbent players like Slack have swiftly added AI features to its roster . For AI-native ones like Cursor, Notion, ChatGPT Desktop and Claude Desktop, AI was always part of the raison d’être. The more AI features these apps released, the more I became inclined to look at their inner workings. Hopefully I would be able to uncover a bit of what’s running under the hood; at the very least, I would learn one thing or two about desktop app development. Coincidentally, I noticed I started exhausting my Copilot credits earlier and earlier each month. This ended up pulling me towards selecting a main candidate for my experiments. I decided to dive deep into VS Code and Copilot.…