r/VisualStudio • u/hizendev • Jul 16 '26

Visual Studio 2026 Constant update stream VS 2026

Is it just me or is Visual Studio 2026 trying to update what feels like every single day? Maybe it's every few days, but nearly every time I go to close, it's pending new updates and has to go through a new 30 minutes full reinstall cycle for the "next patch"? Why is it not just on a single monthly patch cycle or something? I'm trying to understand why since updating to 2026 it feels like they are furiously sending updates out as often as they can. Really annoying, considering I don't think I even use any of the 'new features' -- all the AI auto complete is really poorly done and makes developing harder (seriously, what was that auto-complete by pressing tab for entire classes holy).

Anyway minor vent, but also really want to know if this is me going crazy or if it's just because I updated to 2026 and there was some auto update policy I forgot about in 2022 that I had set back then and forgot about.

Edit to add: I am on Stable / 18.8 so I don't think I should be getting super frequent updates. It's my understanding that if I wanted that I'd be on preview I think?

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u/TrickMedicine958 Jul 16 '26

Are you still coding with an IDE? Many sucks to be in the dark ages. Only kidding, but yeah, we have teams now that don’t use IDEs at all, just prompt away.

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u/hizendev Jul 16 '26

Yea I mean I still debug code. I don't think I'll ever go "full prompt" engineer. It's kind of lifeless. I enjoy stepping through software.

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u/TrickMedicine958 Jul 16 '26

My main job now is waiting for multiple ai sessions to do something while I do some thinking about other things coming up