Can you plugin other LLMs Ala: https://dublog.net/blog/open-weight-copilots/
The Zed configuration panel includes tools for adding an Anthropic API key, a Google Gemini API key, an OpenAI API key or connecting to a local instance of ollama.
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Re: Zed AI
#62The main issue with these set of tools is that I mostly read and understand code more than writing it myself. Not enough attention is been given to this imbalance. It is impressive having an AI that can write code for you, but an AI that helps me understand which code we (as a team) should write would be much more useful.
My immediate instinct was to agree with you whole-heartedly. Then I remembered that Copilot has an "Explain this" button that I never click. Maybe this is because I'm just not used to it, maybe the workflow isn't good enough, or maybe it's because I don't trust the model enough to summarize things correctly. I do agree that this is an area that could use improvement and I see a lot of utility there.
This is great feature, but targeted mostly at junior developers who don't yet understand how particular library or framework work. But when I read the code, I spend most of my effort trying to understand what did original developer meant by this, and LLMs are not yet very helpful in that regard.
Re: Zed AI
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried it with C#. It's not comparable to Copilot. If I've never used Copilot I might be slightly impressed.
I don’t see programming getting exponentially harder. So eventually local compute will catch up with programming needs and offline AI will be pretty good.
The local compute problem is a cost problem, and most people do not have the hardware necessary and judging by trends this will continue for another ~decade.
Re: Zed AI
#64I recently switched from neovim to zed, and I overall like Zed. I miss telescope, and think some vim navigation was better, but I suspect that it has to do with how much effort I put into configuring one over the other, so time will tell. My biggest gripe was how bad the AI was. I really want a heavy and well-crafter AI in my editor, like Cursor, but I don't want a fork of the (hugely bloated and slow) vscode, and I…
nvim has a really good cursor integration plugin
https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim
Re: Zed AI
#65I recently switched from neovim to zed, and I overall like Zed. I miss telescope, and think some vim navigation was better, but I suspect that it has to do with how much effort I put into configuring one over the other, so time will tell. My biggest gripe was how bad the AI was. I really want a heavy and well-crafter AI in my editor, like Cursor, but I don't want a fork of the (hugely bloated and slow) vscode, and I…
nvim has a really good cursor integration plugin
https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim
Re: Zed AI
#66I had hope Zed would be a good editor for junior developers, but that ship apparently has sailed, and it's destination isn't where we need to go.
Seems like a non-sequitur? Why does LLM integration mean that Zed is less good of an editor for junior devs?
Right, LLM integration should be a huge boon for junior developers.
Re: Zed AI
#67I wonder if there's already a solution that allows me to ask questions about local codebases. e.g. how does this subsystem work.
This feature does exactly that. You can open up the chat panel, run "/tab name-of-tab" or "/file path-to-file" and then start asking questions about the code.
Re: Zed AI
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Re: Zed AI
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
AI autocomplete is just a toy, it has been there since the begining of AI code and I find it pretty useless. I prefer making a proper prompt to get better answers. Also most of the time engineers (use AI to) modify existing codebases rather than making new code.
> AI autocomplete is just a toy I disagree, when I'm writing code and it just autocompletes the line for me with the correct type with the correct type params set for the generics it saves me the mental effort having to scroll around the file to find the exact type signature I needed. For these small edits it's always right if the information is in the file.
Why do you need an LLM for that? That basic type inference.
Re: Zed AI
#70I just want a fast programmable text editor with a native GUI and good defaults. But that seems really tough to find, for some reason. Zed is so close, but I’d much rather see a focus on the “programmable” part and let the AI and collaboration features emerge later out of rich extensibility (i.e. as plugins, perhaps even paid plugins) than have them built-in behind a sign-in and unknown future pricing model.
In the case of Zed it was always inevitable, a text editor doesn't raise >$10M in venture capital unless there's a plan to stuff it full of premium subscription features.
Warp Terminal is a similar story, >$50M in funding for a terminal emulator of all things...