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You need to create and sign into a Zed account to use their prediction AI (Zeta) in order to get 2000 free predictions. https://zed.dev/docs/ai/edit-prediction
You can also download the same model and run it locally without data leaving your machine, the Zed tram released it as open weights: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2
Zed Editor Theme-Builder
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Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder
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You could solve this fairly easily by giving an LLM the json definition of your sublime text theme and just transforming it onto a zed spec theme? No need for screenshots.
Wasn't enough (at least with Gemini 3). I had do a few round trips with screenshots until it got all the details.
Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder
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Tried it for a first time and it took five minutes for a major bug to appear - UI fully freezing. I thought it was only scrolling that froze at first, but tried it again (easy to reproduce), and it's the whole UI. Switching apps makes it work again. Haven't seen this behavior in any other app. When trying to report it, I was presented with a form longer than my tax returns. Bug reporting seems like a good place for a…
That's interesting. I've been using Zed for over a year. I've had one or two crashes over that year, which is very stable for using it all day every day.
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It's not just you and it's not just Zed. Dark themes tend to be low contrast gray on gray. I usually look for a dark theme that looks good and then make a custom version with darker the background colors and brighter the foreground colors. Maybe it's time for to start publishing high contrast dark themes instead of just fixing it for myself.
That's what I did: https://github.com/tuzemec/zedokai-darkest-machine
Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder
#85If you use Omarchy, the 3.8 update includes dynamic theming for Zed. It's very cool: https://github.com/APS6/omazed
That is cool. It's a shame DDH is who he is, which stops me using it.
Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder
#86Cool to see all the progress with Zed, but it feels a bit too tied to user accounts. Prominent 'Sign In' buttons and ads like 'Try our new agentic...' They do have to make money and that's fine - but too often incentives start out this way and begin to corrupt the application... Whats next, ads inside file searches? (ubuntu blundered this way and soured the community) - "LQQKING for something? try new ai search by bl…
Re: Zed Editor Theme-Builder
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You can also download the same model and run it locally without data leaving your machine, the Zed tram released it as open weights: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2
Or you can use any other local model you already have.