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Re: Parallel agents in Zed

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Post by jazzypants »

paulddraper wrote: post #66
Frannky wrote: post #61

I would love to unleash parallel agents, but I am still checking every single edit while enforcing minimal, stateless, modular code, and I have the AI check in with me before writing the next file. A lot of times, I find it has incredibly stupid ideas and tends to make the code very messy. I would love to figure out how to stop that from happening automatically. The upside of checking in on the code, though, is that…

> I would love to figure out how to stop that from happening automatically. AGENTS.md

> AGENTS.md

-- which will be ignored just often enough that you can never quite trust it.

Re: Parallel agents in Zed

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Post by habosa »

tengbretson wrote: post #52

I really want to like Zed, but for some reason the way it interfaces with the TypeScript language server is dog slow compared to VS Code and its derivatives.

Same. Zed is so fast it's shocking. But it was using 2-3x as much RAM as VSCode or Cursor with TypeScript and the language server crashed a lot. Given that work is a TypeScript monorepo, that was a dealbreaker for me.

Re: Parallel agents in Zed

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Post by conqrr »

Love Zed for my personal projects at home with Openrouter. But I cant use it at work as I'm forced to use claude code at work and find the VSCode+claude code combo better. I know zed has claudecode integration, but I found it to be very weak compared to zedagent+claudemodel. Has this improved?

Re: Parallel agents in Zed

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Post by indra_varta »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #33
rtfeldman wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can disable all AI features in Zed with a single setting: https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

It doesn’t mean the bulk of their effort isn’t going to AI slopshit.

I disagree. All their "AI slopshit" features are useful, and the fact that you can just.. turn them off and get a great editor regardless is what I like about it.

Re: Parallel agents in Zed

#75

Post by keybored »

throwaway041207 wrote: post #35
xiej wrote: post #15

Funny how Zed's tagline is Love your editor again Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI. At home, I don't use any AI when coding, to keep my brain sharp. But it's clear that Zed's focus is on AI integration because that's where the money's going (seriously, where is the setting to have a different ui icon size vs ui font size). Is there any editor still being being develo…

> But it's clear that Zed's focus is on AI integration because that's where the money's going Do you really think Zed's focus on AI is just about money? You do realize software engineering is in the midst of a tectonic shift?

What will convince people is what they see with their own eyes. Not yet another proclamation that the revolution is happening right now.

Like this.[1]

> AI-assisted coding has become the norm and with tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, we are increasingly letting models touch our code.

... how is it good literaly style to both (1) assume that something is the norm, and (2) use a long intro-sentence to state that something is the norm? Pick a lane—either it is the norm and you don’t need to state it or it isn’t and you need to set the stage. Stating the apparently obvious makes your (their) writing read like a eighth grade paper.

In short I’m agnostic as far as proclamations go. ;)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866913

Re: Parallel agents in Zed

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Post by ksymph »

xiej wrote: post #15

Funny how Zed's tagline is Love your editor again Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI. At home, I don't use any AI when coding, to keep my brain sharp. But it's clear that Zed's focus is on AI integration because that's where the money's going (seriously, where is the setting to have a different ui icon size vs ui font size). Is there any editor still being being develo…

ecode [0] is ridiculously fast -- makes Zed feel like molasses -- and quite customizable. It's still early in development and mostly just made by one guy (who is also developing the GUI framework used), so progress is slow and there are some rough edges, but it has all the important stuff and quite a few niceties too. Really cool project, reminds me of Sublime.

[0] https://github.com/SpartanJ/ecode/

Re: Parallel agents in Zed

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Post by dist-epoch »

Zed might have a fighting chance against VS Code now that it's million extensions are quickly becoming irrelevant since agents do all the coding.

What's needed today is a nice way to orchestrate agents and do some small manual edits there and there to the code.

Re: Parallel agents in Zed

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Post by tecoholic »

tengbretson wrote: post #52

I really want to like Zed, but for some reason the way it interfaces with the TypeScript language server is dog slow compared to VS Code and its derivatives.

Check the lsp servers that run when you are editing TS file. I noticed something like 5-6 when editing a TSX file. There was even tailwind thrown in for a good measure (the project has no tailwind). All that buttery smooth 120fps wasted on poor resource management when it comes to LSPs.

Re: Parallel agents in Zed

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Post by theowaway213456 »

jazzypants wrote: post #71
paulddraper wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would love to figure out how to stop that from happening automatically. AGENTS.md

> AGENTS.md -- which will be ignored just often enough that you can never quite trust it.

Yup. No matter how much you tell it to keep things simple, modular, crisp, whatever, it generates tons of garbage much too often.
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