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Re: Zed DeltaDB

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What I really like is that all code links it outputs, open a pane at that line.

low bar. we've had anchor hrefs for decades now.

At this point I'm happy when things don't break randomly. However, it seems I lost an ACP session today and I'm not sure it's my own fault. Could be Zed playing tricks.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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low bar. we've had anchor hrefs for decades now.

At this point I'm happy when things don't break randomly. However, it seems I lost an ACP session today and I'm not sure it's my own fault. Could be Zed playing tricks.

don't get me wrong. it has improved. i use it all day, every day.

my favorite ux goof right now is the fastmode switch button right next to the stop button and how much space it all takes up.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Zed should focus on basics. When it focuses on basics Zed is good. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150 failing to show newly created files and declining to provide a refresh button, instead adding a polling backend, breaks Zed on WSL. Why a new version control system? Why not git, jj, or another existing system?

Because git kind of sucks, in my humble opinion.

We deal with it, but even with options like jj, it always feels like you're settling. Git works, and we are familiar with it, but is it much more than that? Our baseline expectation should be higher.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Why develop this when the core editor is almost unusable? On Linux wayland, copypaste is broken, the file manager is laggy and snippets do not trigger before the heavy hint logic is done. This is just on top of my head, the list is long

I'm on macOS, but the core editor is far from unusable. I think it's unfair to call it that.

Zed is my daily driver and I'm pretty happy with it. I often switch over to other editors to do things Zed can't, but it's rarer than you'd think and really isn't that much of a hassle.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Why are people in this thread being so incessantly cynical? I expect more out of HN. I get that some wish Zed had other priorities, but the features being touted sound really promising.

Of course it's just marketing until we get an actual product, but I for one look forward to seeing this stuff in action.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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Anytime a company/group announces some random new project now, I tend to immediately suspect over-reliance on AI. From what I’ve seen, AI addiction frequently manifests as an explosion in scope, possibly because LLMs make so much initial “progress” on new projects which you can then demo and have resource allocators extrapolate to some glorious shipping version. But then you have to go back & clean up the slop, progr…

God it’s so tiring reading this bullshit framing that you people constantly regurgitate.

Why? People care about their craft and people care about what they interact with the world.

The vast majority of people don't like using poorly made things, especially when it is forced upon them against their will.

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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> Every change is linked to the agent conversation that produced it A total nightmare and imo every dev should push back using this stuff. You'd otherwise have management brag about you not being a good communicator with the ai agent, the same management that have no idea how to steer these tools. I really like Zed the editor, I'm not sure I like the path they getting into

These sort of paper trails are for developers not management though, does your manager open all your commits and start commenting on them? If so, maybe apply somewhere else.

Management nowadays are for sure playing with surveillance software against their workers. Let's please not think otherwise, it's one of the main value adds that LLM companies are selling to businesses; about the ease of which you can collect metrics on employees after feeding whatever into an LLM.

The neat thing is that they thing decide to make your life miserable based on their made up findings!

Re: Zed DeltaDB

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They aren't proposing to replace git though. They are just attempting to make it simpler for developers to follow changes applied by an LLM in an ergonomic fashion. Not saying it will work well but I'm happy to see someone trying a new approach here.

I don't want someone "to make it simpler for developers to follow changes applied by an LLM in an ergonomic fashion". I want a text editor. I want "VScode without the bullshit". That's what I thought they were building.

Try Gram. It's a fork of Zed which changes a few things, one of which is that all the AI stuff is disabled by default. I was interested in it because it doesn't download language servers without asking you (unlike Zed). Ultimately I'm kind of on the fence between it and Sublime, but it's a lot better than Zed imo.
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