---
title: "Benchmarking VS Code with VSC-Bench: How to measure agent performance"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-07-01"
time: "11:40am-12:00pm"
track: "Track M"
room: "Track M"
speakers: ["Ross Wollman"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Track M"
scheduleRoom: "Track M"
scheduleLabels: ["Track M", "Track M", "sponsor", "confirmed"]
---
# Benchmarking VS Code with VSC-Bench: How to measure agent performance

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 11:40am-12:00pm
- Track/room: Track M · Track M
- Speaker(s): Ross Wollman
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed

- Track: Track M
- Room: Track M
- Session type: sponsor
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
"Agent quality in VS Code depends on a stack of variables: model, version, prompts, extensions, MCP servers, and more. Each one affects quality, tokens, and latency—and they interact in ways that are hard to reason about. In this session, we’ll show how to benchmark different configurations using VSC-Bench so you can compare results side by side and understand what actually works. Instead of guessing which setup is better, you’ll learn how to measure tradeoffs and make data-driven decisions."

## Media Evidence
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## Evidence Graph
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## Transcript Status
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## People
- [[ross-wollman]]

## Notes
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## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# Benchmarking VS Code with VSC-Bench: How to measure agent performance ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 11:40am-12:00pm - Track/room: Track M · Track M - Speaker(s): Ross Wollman - Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed - Track: Track M - Room: Track M - Session type: sponsor - Status: confirmed ## Session Description "Agent quality in VS Code depends on a stack of variables: model, version, prompts, extensions, MCP servers, and more. Each one affects quality, tokens, and latency—and they interact in ways that are hard to reason about. In this session, we’ll show how to benchmark different configurations using VSC-Bench so you can compare results side by side and understand what actually works. Instead of guessing which setup is better, you’ll learn how to measure tradeoffs and make data-driven decisions." ## Media Evidence No related AI Engineer channel video found yet.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[ross-wollman|Ross Wollman]] — role not listed at company not listed.

### Topics Covered
- [[coding-agents]]
- [[mcp]]

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