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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by dkersten »

Been using Zed as my daily driver (without AI) since sometime in late 2023 when I decided I wanted to ditch vscode for mention leaner and faster. Love it.

I switched to cursor earlier this year to try out LLM assisted development and realised how much I now despise vscode. It’s slow, memory hungry, and just doesn’t work as well (and in a keyboard centric way) as Zed.

Then a couple of weeks ago, I switched back to Zed, using the agents beta. AI in Zed doesn’t feel quite as polished as cursor (at least, edit predictions don’t feel as good or fast), but the agent mode works pretty well now. I still use cursor a little because anything that isn’t vscode or pycharm has imho a pretty bad Python LSP experience (those two do better because they use proprietary LSP’s), but I’m slowly migrating to full stack typescript (and some Gleam), so hope to fully ditch cursor in favour of Zed soon.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by nico »

rtfeldman wrote: post #222
nico wrote: post #202

The demo video looks great The free pricing is a bit confusing, it says 50 prompts/month, but also BYO API keys So even if I use my own API keys, the prompts will stop at 50 per month? Also, since it’s open source, couldn’t just someone remove the limit? (I guess that wouldn’t work if the limit is of some service provided by Zed)

Zed employee here - there are no limits if you bring your own API keys!

Awesome, thank you. I've been trying it for the last few minutes, really liking it. Pretty impressed with how well it works using ollama + qwen3:32b

Two nitpicks:

1) the terminal is not picking up my regular terminal font, which messes up the symbols for my zsh prompt (is there a way to fix this?)

2) the model, even though it's suggesting very good edits, and gives very precise instructions with links to the exact place in the code where to make the changes, is not automatically editing the files (like in the video), even though it seems to have all the Write tools enabled, including editing - is this because of the model I'm using (qwen3:32b)? or something else?

Edit: 3rd, big one, I had a js file, made a small 1 line change, and when I saved the file, the editor automatically, and without warning, changed all the single quotes to double quotes - I didn't notice at first, committed, made other commits, then a PR - that's when I realized all the quotes changes - which took me a while to figure out how they happened, until I started a new branch, with the original file, made 1 change, saved and then I saw it

Can this behavior be changed? I find it very strange that the editor would just change a whole file like that

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by hombre_fatal »

I tried Zed out and successfully got Claude chat working with my API key.

But I'm not sure how to get predictions working.

When the predictions on-ramp window popped up asking if I wanted to enable it, I clicked yes and then it prompted me to sign in to Github. Upon approving the request on Github, an error popover over the prediction menubar item at the bottom said "entity not found" or something.

Not sure if that's related (Zed shows that I'm signed in despite that) but I can't seem to get prediction working. e.g. "Predict edit at cursor" seems to no-op.

Anyways, the onboarding was pretty sweet aside from that. The "Enable Vim mode" on the launch screen was a nice touch.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by ilikegreen »

deepsquirrelnet wrote: post #105
pseudopersonal wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would love a vim plugin for this. Many LLM vim plugins started off beautifully minimal, but became too agentic in their chase of Cursor.

Maybe once all of this is a bit more mature we can just get down to the minimal subset of features that are really important. I’d love a nvim plugin that is more or less just a split chat window that makes it easy to paste code I’ve yanked (like yank to chat) add my commentary and maybe easily attach other files for context. That’s it really.

Last time I used it, Avante was pretty much nailing what you are describing.

https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by hombre_fatal »

onli wrote: post #228
duped wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point was contradicting another comment with my own experience, not to putz around with bug reports or trouble shooting. I don't care about Zed fixing anything - they're Zed's issues, not mine. All I'm saying is that contrary to what someone else said about the software being "fast" I tried it and at startup, it was unusably slow. I'm what you would call a failed conversion. > Also, how is whether the project is…

But you run Linux, with its myriad of software configurations. And if this thread is correct Linux support is already far along, if it runs well on something old like the X230. It is not a realistic expectation for any project to work on your hardware if you are not at least willing to report an issue, or rather: No software will run flawlessly on all hardware always, that's not realistic. Error message, hardware con…

Once you get a knack for it, you can see that the original comment of "So I guess it's only fast on macos?" already has an attitude, and the rest of the thread comes at no surprise.

How about "I'm getting <1FPS perf on {specs}" instead of the snark.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by porsager »

isaacimagine wrote: post #160

I interned at zed during the summer of 2022, when the editor was pre-alpha. Nathan, Max, Antonio are great guys and build software with care. I'm happy to see the editor receive the success it deserves, because the team has poured so much world-class engineering work into it. I worked with Antonio on prototyping the extensions system[0]. In other words, Antonio got to stress test the pair programming collaboration te…

I wish they would have stayed with the collaborative part a bit longer. Once the AI wave hit it feels abandoned with various bugs and hard to reproduce issues. I am a full time zed user converting from sublime only due to the collaborative features, but by now we don't even use the collaborative features anymore because it's unreliable (broken connections, sounds, overwriting changes, weird history/undo behavior), so will probably go back to sublime again. Note that all of us are sitting on fiber connections, so I don't believe the issues are network related.

I've been trying to be active, create issues, help in any way I can, but the focus on AI tells me Zed is no longer an editor for me.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by airstrike »

volkk wrote: post #230
airstrike wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there are literally dozens of examples, including many apps you can reference. come join the discord and check out the showcase channel. I've written and published probably 50-100 examples to show best practices to people who want to learn more. I basically leave zero questions unanswered on that server, unless they are so far out of my wheelhouse that I can't answer them, but even then I might point you to the right…

this is cool! i appreciate the warm invite. I really like your repo! They should include these examples in their primary repo. I did bump into halloy/icebreaker, etc but i just don't really find reading through massive repos a great entrypoint into whether a library/framework makes sense for me. I'll have to seriously look into it again, i do really like a vibrant community, and a lively discord is a nice close secon…

glad to hear it and thanks for the kind words!

I'll be waiting for you on Discord ;-) my username is the same there so ping me if you need anything

and I forgot to link to a ridiculously cool new feature that dropped last week: time travel debugging for free

https://github.com/iced-rs/iced/pull/2910

check out the third and fourth videos!

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

droopyEyelids wrote: post #214
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is great enthusiasm for the editor in this thread. A personal anecdote indicating subpar performance on a common developer environment (Linux) is a useful signal that took a few seconds of effort. Putting together a high quality, actionable bug report is a much higher bar that can often feel like screaming at the clouds.

It seem like bickering at this point, but I do not see how that is a useful signal. I’m genuinely curious what you are getting out of it

So, only positive feedback allowed in this thread?

As a Linux user, I am sadly accustomed to some software working in only a just-so configuration. A datapoint that the software is still Mac first development is useful to know. Zed might still be worth trying, but I have to temper my enthusiasm from the headline announcement of, “everything is great”.

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