Zed AI

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Post by dahjelle » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 6:47 PM UTC

Re: Zed AI

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Post by mikkelam » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 6:52 PM UTC

Ive been using Zed's assistant panel heavily and have really enjoyed the experience. The UI can be a bit frustrating. Sometimes, when you write it's hard to get it to send your query. The new /workflow seems to really bridge the last gap to effectively edit the parts that im asking for help with changes.

I'm already paying for OpenAI API access, definitely gonna try this

Re: Zed AI

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Post by janice1999 » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 7:06 PM UTC

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...

Re: Zed AI

#4

Post by heeton » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 7:08 PM UTC

I’d be curious how this compares to supermaven, my current favourite AI autocomplete.

Re: Zed AI

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Post by andrepd » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 7:10 PM UTC

mikkelam wrote: post #2

Ive been using Zed's assistant panel heavily and have really enjoyed the experience. The UI can be a bit frustrating. Sometimes, when you write it's hard to get it to send your query. The new /workflow seems to really bridge the last gap to effectively edit the parts that im asking for help with changes. I'm already paying for OpenAI API access, definitely gonna try this

It's the opposite for me ahaha. I'm very excited for Zed as a performant and powerful text editor, an "updated + open-source sublime text" if you will. But I have absolutely no interest in AI and copilot and github integrations and whatnot.

This is not a criticism of zed though, I simply have no interest. Much the contrary: I can only praise Zed as to how simple it is to disable all these integrations!

Re: Zed AI

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Post by jmakov » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 7:10 PM UTC

I wonder if there's already a solution that allows me to ask questions about local codebases. e.g. how does this subsystem work.

Re: Zed AI

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Post by swyx » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 7:10 PM UTC

am Cursor main, dont really have any burning pains that make me want to change tools but open to what I dont know.

Zed vs Cursor review anyone?

Re: Zed AI

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Post by siscia » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 7:11 PM UTC

The 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.

Re: Zed AI

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Post by _joel » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 7:12 PM UTC

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...

Interesting, have you used it/found it to be usable? I use IntelliJ myself, but it's not known for being a lean beast. With the addition of stuff like test containers and a few plugins, I'd be suprised if my machine didn't melt adding a local LLM too.

Re: Zed AI

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Post by s3tt3mbr1n1 » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 7:13 PM UTC

Interesting that this seems to be the announcement of Anthropic's Copilot alternative:

> A private beta of the Claude 3.5 Sonnet's new Fast Edit Mode, optimized for text editing. This upcoming mode achieves unprecedented speed in transforming existing text, enabling near-instantaneous code refactoring and document editing at scale.