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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by DreaminDani »

rtfeldman wrote: post #196
tgtweak wrote: post #195

I get the high performance component, but it seems most of their speed is from underlying models supporting a "diff style" edits and that a small percentage of it is from code-level text-editing optimizations and improvements. vscode running a typescript extension (cline, gemini, cursor, etc) to achieve LLM-enhanced coding is probably the least efficient way to do it in terms of cpu usage, but the features they bring…

> Maybe I'm wrong but when I looked at zed last (about 2 months ago) the AI workflow was surprisingly clunky I'm curious what you think of this launch! :D We've overhauled the entire workflow - the OP link describes how it works now.

agreed! I was not a huge fan of the AI integration before in Zed and would always switch to Cursor (or, lately Claude Code) to actually get something done. Now that Zed can target specific pieces of code from the sidebar and edit them directly, it's been my goto for the last 24 hours. I've yet to "eject" to my old tools.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by freehorse »

dtkav wrote: post #350
freehorse wrote: post #345

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Actually, I just checked and an active text thread is added to the inline prompt context (you may need to click on the box at the bottom of the inline prompt to include it, but then it is added by default for the next). So it looks fine to me (and it is nicer that it is more explicit this way). There is also the "+" button to add files, threads etc, though it would be nice if it could also be done through slash comma…

Are you sure it is the right thread? On mine it shows the title of the last agent thread even though I'm in a text thread.

Yes, and it followed the instructions in my text thread.

I opened a previous agent thread and it gave me the option to include both threads to the context of the inline prompt (the old text thread was included and I had to click to exclude it, the new thread was grayed out and I had to click to include it).

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by dtkav »

freehorse wrote: post #353
dtkav wrote: post #350

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure it is the right thread? On mine it shows the title of the last agent thread even though I'm in a text thread.

Yes, and it followed the instructions in my text thread. I opened a previous agent thread and it gave me the option to include both threads to the context of the inline prompt (the old text thread was included and I had to click to exclude it, the new thread was grayed out and I had to click to include it).

Thanks a lot for trying it and reporting back. I'll have to see if my version is out of date or something.

edit: yup, they fixed it 2 days ago

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by EnPissant »

lordofgibbons wrote: post #10

I really want to move off VS Code and start using Zed, but unfortunately the text is always extremely blurry. It's just unusable. I check back on the GitHub issue every few months and it just has more votes and more supportive comments, but no acknowledgement. Hopefully someone can rescue us from the sluggish VS Code. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992 I have a 1440p monitor and seeing this issue.

I tried zed and experienced the same thing (also 1440p), so now I don't use it.

I have the same issue with macOS in general, and I don't understand how anyone can use it on a normal DPI monitor.

I'm guessing zed implemented their own text rendering without either hinting or subpixel rendering or both.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by brandall10 »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #270
maxbrunsfeld wrote: post #243

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Yeah, we plan to revisit the collaboration features; it was painful but we decided we needed to pause work on it while we built out some more highly-requested functionality. We still have big plans for improving team collaboration!

Not sure what your budget looks like, but maybe its time to look for a new developer if its feasible? So you don't neglect a feature that's already in production and broken.

There's 3 open engineering roles on the Careers page.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by EnPissant »

naikrovek wrote: post #163
kubik369 wrote: post #31

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If you are using MacOS, unfortunately, your issue is that you are using a 1440p monitor, not an issue with any one program. Apple has removed support for font rendering methods which make text on non-integer scaled screens look sharper. As a result, if you want to use your screen without blurry text, you have to use 1080p (1x), 4k (2x 1080p), 5k (2x 1440p) or 6k screens (or any other screens where integer scaling loo…

native resolution on any monitor should work fine on MacOS. using pixel fonts on any non-integer multiplier of the native resolution will always result in horrible font rendering, I don't care what OS you're on. I use MacOS on all kinds of displays as I move throughout the day, some of them are 1x, some are 2x, and some are somewhere in between. using a vector font in Zed looks fine on all of them. It did not look fi…

macOS fonts subjectively look terrible and objectively look blurry on normal resolution monitors because:

1) No hinting

2) No subpixel rendering

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by EnPissant »

trevorhinesley wrote: post #21
krastanov wrote: post #18

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I am amazed people consider 1440p low resolution. My knee-jerk reaction was to assume you were sarcastic. I use a monitor of roughly that many lines of pixels and have never had observed blurry text in the tools I use (and I use fairly small fonts).

Are you using enlarged text or native 1440p? If the latter, have you used 4k or retina displays in the past? It’s hard to go back after that.

Text on 1440p looks great with full hinting and subpixel rendering. Unfortunately, macOS does neither, so the jump to retina feels more significant than it is.
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