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Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
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Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
#142Side note, but I hate that we're moving to a world where coding costs a subscription. I fell in love with coding because I could take my dad's old Thinkpad, install Linux for free - fire up Emacs and start hacking without an internet connection. We're truly building walls everywhere.
It doesn't though. You can still code the old fashioned way, and you are even likely to become a better programmer for it.
Personally, I tried copilot when I got it for free as a student and it didnt make a difference. The reason I know is that I was coding on two devices, one which had copilot installed the other didnt, and I didnt care enough to install it on the latter through an entire semester.
Its just slightly better autocomplete, by a questionable standard of "better".
Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
#143Reminds me of JetBrains AI, I think I'll stick to JetBrains solution for the time being. I'm not super crazy on AI coding solutions, but the JetBrains flavor hits a sweet spot for me, built-in and does what I usually need it to do.
Has it gotten better? I tried it out early and it was unusable
Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
#144Who would ever allow this in their organisation after the tiktok shutdown, just go for one of the other 17 ai IDE forks
China itself? Russia that has been blocked from all western services? Any non-US/western company?
Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
#145Apparently the target market for this is supposed to be "Chinese coders living abroad". Thus it supporting English and Chinese languages. And it may be a competitive step taken after Alibaba launched their new coding assistant.
Isn't any modern llm inherently multilingual?
Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hard to look at slower editors after sublime speed and hyper speed from zed rust
I've tried Zed and Ghostty and I just don't really get the speed thing. Typing latency is extremely unnoticeable in VS Code/Cursor and other Electron apps for me.
For me it's very noticeable. Typing, invoking lsp actions, opening terminal panel, switching between files. Everything feels much much faster. Switched to zed several months ago and never looked back
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#147Isn’t this just Cursor but worse?
It's surprisingly very good. The AI responses are very good, and it's free to use. They don't charge anything for claude-3.5-sonnet. I also love its UI even though they totally copied JetBrains Fleet's UI.
> They don't charge anything for claude-3.5-sonnet
Makes you think about how they're extracting value from you to make up for this. I rack up non-significant amounts when using Claude 3.5 Sonnet for coding.
Considering the data they siphon from their other "free" apps, I don't want to think about what this does on developer machines with code bases and production access.
Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
#148There's no way I am using a Chinese IDE with VSCode (w/ Coppilot) and Cursor existing after reading the privacy issues in the court documents with TikTok. Bytedance had some extremely overreaching expectations of data it wanted. That being said, I am using (Chinese) Deepseek r1 because there isn't currently a free LLM on par with it. I am careful with what I share though, a little more so than with any others that ar…
I would rather let Chinese companies take my data than US/EU ones where I have bank accounts. Unless you are a super important, influential person, you shouldn't worry about China.
Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
#149Reminds me of JetBrains AI, I think I'll stick to JetBrains solution for the time being. I'm not super crazy on AI coding solutions, but the JetBrains flavor hits a sweet spot for me, built-in and does what I usually need it to do.
Has it gotten better? I tried it out early and it was unusable
Still unusable. I had to disable it.
Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
#150I've been toying with roo-code (cline fork) and it's fun. Before you give out your data to china maybe consider that or continue.