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Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by conartist6 »

gnrlst wrote: post #89
conartist6 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Worry not, for it is being built. You will not catch me using the words "agentic IDE" to describe what I'm doing because its primary purpose isn't to be used by AI any more than the primary purpose of a car is to drive itself. But yes, what I am doing is creating an IDE where the primary integration surface for humans, scripts, and AIs is not the 2D text buffer, but the embedded tree structure of the code. Zed almost…

I've very interested in this, and completely agree we are still trying to evolve the horse carriage without realizing we can move away from it. How can I follow up on what you're building? Would you be open to having a chat? I've found your github, but let me know how if there's a better way to contact you.

The BABLR Discord is the spot, though I'm also happy to take emails: https://discord.gg/NfMNyYN6cX (and yes I'm happy to chat!)

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by rtfeldman »

benlm wrote: post #78
terhechte wrote: post #66

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In the new agent panel not everything is editable. Maybe give it another try.

I really miss the everything is editable panel, it felt like a superpower. There’s a bit of a learning curve, but after it’s amazing and everything else feels limited.

The old one is still available! :D

Press the 3-dots menu in the upper right of the panel, and then choose "New Text Thread" instead of "New Thread".

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by rtfeldman »

humlex wrote: post #83
volkk wrote: post #59

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i have and it's more of the same (unless i'm missing something). the fact that the entire thing is editable is weird to me. i really think they should just clone cursor's in this one case because they really nailed the UX with the checkpoint restoration edit: yes i missed something. i see the new feature. hell yeah!

Its the opposite to me. I really liked that the AI panel was a fully featured text editor buffer like any other. The new agent panel makes it too much like "the rest" haha. I guess I'll get used to it over time. The important thing is that we finally have agentic editing which is extremely powerful ofc.

You can still access that one! Press the 3-dots menu in the upper right of the panel, and then choose "New Text Thread" instead of "New Thread".

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by spookie »

askonomm wrote: post #14
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.

1440p monitor would probably be why the text is blurry - there simply isn't enough pixels to make things smooth without resorting to special hacks to improve LowDPI text rendering, which with more and more displays being HiDPI many don't bother doing.

1440p is high enough for anything depending on screen size.

If they're running everything on the GPU then their SDF text rendering needs more work to be resolution independent. I'm assuming they use SDFs, or some variant of that.

Really, the screen isn't the issue given that on other editors OP says it is fine.

Knuth would be angry reading this :)

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by WD-42 »

awill wrote: post #70

As a longtime Sublime user, Sublime really needs to step it up. Presumably their silence is because they're (hopefully) releasing something big soon.

I was a sublime user as well, Zed is the first editor to get me off it. It’s nice using an editor that gets modern improvements again. The writing was on the wall for ST when LSPs happened and support for them was relegated to a community plugin.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by larodi »

LeafItAlone wrote: post #46

A bit off topic: For work I mostly develop on Python and Typescript. I’ve been using PyCharm Professional for over a decade (after an even longer time with emacs). I keep trying to switch to vscode, Cursor, etc. as they seem to be well liked by their users. Recently I’ve also tried Zed. But the Jetbrains suite of tools for refactoring, debugging, and general “intelligence” keep me going back. I know I’m not the only…

Important not - you should not assume Zed is on par with vscode in terms of functionality. Nothing really is as MS started as early as Atom was born, and perhaps they were considering some SublimeText approach to the editior, as it is what started these type of editors more or less.

But Zed is a complete rewrite, which on one hand makes itsuper-fast, but otherwise is still super-lacking of integration with the existing vsix extensions, language servers, and what not. Many authors in this forum totally fail to see that SublimeText4 is super ultra fast also compared to Electron-based editors, but is not even close in terms of supported extensions.

The whole Cursor hysteria may abruptly end with CoPilot/Cline/Continue advancing, and honestly, havng used both - there isnt much difference in the final result, should you know what you are doing.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by pseudopersonal »

SafeDusk wrote: post #84

Tried Zed and Cursor, but they always felt too magical to me. I ended up building a minimal agent framework that only uses seven tools (even for code edits): read, write, diff, browse, command, ask, and think. These simple, composable tools can be utilized well enough by increasingly powerful LLM(s), especially Gemini 2.5 pro to achieve most tasks in a consistent, understandable way. More importantly - I can just swi…

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.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

LeafItAlone wrote: post #46

A bit off topic: For work I mostly develop on Python and Typescript. I’ve been using PyCharm Professional for over a decade (after an even longer time with emacs). I keep trying to switch to vscode, Cursor, etc. as they seem to be well liked by their users. Recently I’ve also tried Zed. But the Jetbrains suite of tools for refactoring, debugging, and general “intelligence” keep me going back. I know I’m not the only…

Yup. Can't give up Jetbrains. When you want to automate a task, you can reach for claude code.

Re: Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor

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Post by upcoming-sesame »

SafeDusk wrote: post #84

Tried Zed and Cursor, but they always felt too magical to me. I ended up building a minimal agent framework that only uses seven tools (even for code edits): read, write, diff, browse, command, ask, and think. These simple, composable tools can be utilized well enough by increasingly powerful LLM(s), especially Gemini 2.5 pro to achieve most tasks in a consistent, understandable way. More importantly - I can just swi…

How do you run it in VSC using MCP?
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