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Sequoia backs Zed

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Re: Sequoia backs Zed

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Post by decentrality »

DeltaDB sounds of being a >git innovation for coding itself, and would fulfill Zed's promises in Nathan Sobo's debate/discussion with Steve Yegge recently.

Seems to solve a real problem which is growing rapidly, both in the old way and in the new way ... if it can overcome _slop_ in LLM chats, and the sheer enormity of code/data ahead. Trying to picture how coherence will survive.

With claims/hype/concern floating around that >90% of code will be LLM-generated within 3-6 months, with the insinuation/tone [1] that the same amount of code will be written by humans as now ( at least at first ) but LLM code will radically grow to dilute the space ( as is happening ) ... seems like DeltaDB being done right/well is going to be do-or-die on whether coherence remains possible!

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ceo-ai-90-percent-...

Re: Sequoia backs Zed

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Post by eorri »

I think they're tackling a real problem that is revealing itself via agentic coding, and I think they've positioned themselves in an interesting spot.

I'd be interested to know how much data DeltaDB accumulates over time - because the level of granularity is so high - and are they going to want to use that data as training data?

Re: Sequoia backs Zed

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Post by shafyy »

pbiggar wrote: post #8

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I don't know why you are being downvoted. This is a real issue and a legitimate concern to have as a user of this software. I feel the same way (never used Zed in the first place because they are VC backed, but this would have been the final straw for me, too).
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