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Re: Zed AI

#81

Post by simonw »

throwaway082024 wrote: post #74
golergka wrote: post #45

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I love AI and think Zed is dropping the ball big time here. How can they focus their limited resources into developing shitty AI extensions when they should be focusing on absolute deal-breakers, like cross-platform support? Nobody cares that they can't use Claude on Zed. Everyone cares that they can't use Zed on Windows.

"Everyone cares that they can't use Zed on Windows."

By "Everyone" I assume you mean "Everyone who uses Windows". I can't imagine us Mac/Linux people care very much.

Re: Zed AI

#82

Post by [deleted] »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #18

Hrm. Still not quite what I crave. Here's roughly what I want. I want to be able to highlight some block of code, ask the AI to modify it in some way, and then I want to see a diff view of before/after that lets me accept or reject changes. LLMs often get code slightly wrong. That's fine! Doesn't bother me at all. What I need is an interface that allows me to iterate on code AND helps me understand the changes. As a…

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Re: Zed AI

#83

Post by sangnoir »

raincole wrote: post #16
janice1999 wrote: post #3

JetBrains ships a local, offline AI auto-complete in PyCharm. Sure it's limited, but it shows it can be done. It's a pity other companies aren't trying the same, especially this one that boasts about millisecond editing times. Edit: JetBrains, not IntelliJ. Auto-complete details - https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/04/04/full-line-code-co...

I tried it with C#. It's not comparable to Copilot. If I've never used Copilot I might be slightly impressed.

For those who don't have the latitude of uploading their code to Microsoft servers, smaller, limited but fully local AI is better than nothing.

Re: Zed AI

#84

Post by ksylvestre »

stephc_int13 wrote: post #17

Not releasing a cross-platform code editor on the dominant OS seems quite weird in my opinion. (I know they plan to do it, but as someone who has built cross-platform apps, this is not rocket science to have Win32 support from the start.)

It's especially weird they released linux (with x11 AND wayland backends) before windows.

Re: Zed AI

#86

Post by laweijfmvo »

modernerd wrote: post #32

I 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.

What's your current text editor and what's wrong with it?

Re: Zed AI

#87

Post by dcchambers »

I've been trying to mainline Zed for the past few months...and overall I really do like it - but there are enough quirks/bugs that make me frustrated.

A simple example: Something as simple as the hotkeys for opening or closing the project panel with the file tree isn't consistent and doesn't work all the time.

To be clear: I am excited about this new addition. I understand there's a ton of value in these LLM "companions" for many developers and many use cases, and I know why Zed is adding it...but I really want to see the core editor become bullet proof before they build more features.

Re: Zed AI

#88

Post by throwaway082024 »

simonw wrote: post #81
throwaway082024 wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love AI and think Zed is dropping the ball big time here. How can they focus their limited resources into developing shitty AI extensions when they should be focusing on absolute deal-breakers, like cross-platform support? Nobody cares that they can't use Claude on Zed. Everyone cares that they can't use Zed on Windows.

"Everyone cares that they can't use Zed on Windows." By "Everyone" I assume you mean "Everyone who uses Windows". I can't imagine us Mac/Linux people care very much.

Yep. It's an easy example to point at which shows how skewed Zed's priorities are. They're seemingly much more interested in adding AI than they are the other 2.7k reported issues on their Github repo. As a Zed user on Mac, that's when I jump ship.

Re: Zed AI

#89

Post by iamnbutler »

forrestthewoods wrote: post #18

Hrm. Still not quite what I crave. Here's roughly what I want. I want to be able to highlight some block of code, ask the AI to modify it in some way, and then I want to see a diff view of before/after that lets me accept or reject changes. LLMs often get code slightly wrong. That's fine! Doesn't bother me at all. What I need is an interface that allows me to iterate on code AND helps me understand the changes. As a…

Hey, this is Nate from Zed. Give the inline assistant a try. Here is a little demo: https://share.cleanshot.com/F2mg2lXy

You can even edit the prompt after the fact if the diff doesn't show what you want and regenerate without having to start all over.

Re: Zed AI

#90

Post by 1a527dd5 »

I know I'm not the target market. I don't want my editor to have AI.

I was really looking forward to trying Zed, but this just means I'll stick to VS/Code with the AI gung disabled.

In general, if any product comes with "AI" I'm turned off by it.

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