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Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance

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Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance

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Reminds 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

Compared to plugin like Sourcegraph Cody with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Jetbrain's is still atrocious.

Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance

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Although, tbf, some libraries are documented better than others. Also, local llms with an agentic tool can be a lot of fun to quickly prototype things. Quality can be hit or miss. Hopefully the work trickles down to local models long-term.

And you think an llm can generate code to use an undocumented library? :D

Even documented libraries can be a struggle, especially if they are not particularly popular. I'm doing a project with WiFi/LoRa/MQTT on an ESP32. The WiFi code was fairly decent, but the MQTT and especially LoRa library code was nearly useless.

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TikTok was shut down because of clueless bureaucrats and political games, not because of any specific threat. If there was a real risk posed by China why are they idly allowing millions of people to migrate to Xiaohongshu, which is even more strongly controlled by China?

What bureaucrats? It was banned because of a law passed by Congress. Representatives aren't bureaucrats.

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Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance

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There'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…

As far as I can tell this is operated out of Singapore, which is not some communist backwater, according to the law there and on top of US big tech infrastructure. The models this editor work with are by Anthropic and OpenAI both US companies.

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To me USA and China are both foreign nations, and USA is the one who is far more aggressive in terms of army and spies. So as a non USA citizen, I'm way more afraid of USA than I am of China.

This is probably true, but at least in principle one of those foreign nations stands for free speech and democracy and the other stands for censorship and authoritarianism. [Edit: hey Europeans commenting and downvoting below, note the words "in principle" in the above comment and evaluate which of the two countries do or do not purport to stand for these things despite whatever your hot take may be on the current mo…

That's 2 words non US people usually don't think when they think US. Democracy is literally the last thing that would come to my mind right now.

Edit:// "In principle" chinas gov stands for stability, economic development and national unity...

Re: Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance

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I took it for a spin and it looks great - a great way of playing with a LLM. Sure some of the elements are in IntelliJ, Copilot, or maybe Cursor (which I haven't tried) but it is all very well put together.

Recommended.

(But of course it would be nice to be able to run it against a local model which doesn't seem possible at the moment.)

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