This is why I’m using Zed now, and Claude Code. I like to keep Zed pretty minimal and I’m slowly weening off of Cursor in favor of Claude Code when I need it
Yeah, it took me a few weeks to wean off cursor but I’m now happily using Zed exclusively.
Cursors tab predictions are still a bit better and snappier but I feel like Zed is a better editor experience over all and I don’t rely on AI anyway. Agent mode works pretty well for me though. Also cursor leaks memory pretty bad for me.
There’s still room for improvement but Zed is working on fixes and improvements at a high pace and I’m already pretty happy with where it’s at.
I’m not a fan of the 20 tool limit unless you use the Max option which costs you 1 credit for each and every tool call + message. Seems like an artificial limit and it always rips me out
Agree, I recently started using Zed as my primary IDE, with Cursor as my secondary when I need an llm to write a lot code. I really prefer the less hard in approach of Zed so far. I’ve intentionally not enabled any of the Ai add-on / free trial Claude stuff to keep Zed less intrusive.
Btw - I try to always check in and have a clean slate before I get Cursor involved, that way if it goes nuts rewriting stuff or flat out fails at the task I can easily discard the change.
Maybe so, but we’re teaching it these kinds of lines of thinking. And whether or not it creates these thoughts independently and creatively on its own, over the long lifetime of the systems we are the ones introducing dangerous data sets that could eventually cause us as a species harm. Again, I understand that fiction is just fiction, but if that’s the model that these are being trained off of intentionally or otherwise, then that is the model that they will pursue in the future.
Every parent encounters this dilemma. In order to ensure your child can protect itself, you have to teach them about all the dangers of the world. Isolating the child from the dangers only serves to make them more vulnerable. It is an irony that defending one's self from the horrifying requires making a representation of it inside ourselves.
Titration of the danger, and controlled exposure within safer contexts seems to be the best solution anyone's found.
None of this fits losing a lifelong friend that lives in another state now, which is what happened to me after having kids recently.
I suspect in my scenario it was his lack of having kids and the ability to do so (they are not able to have kids). Best I can tell is it was painful for him to see / hear about my life with kids now.
Because our relationship had become long distance it mostly centered around long phone calls or gaming / vr sessions together ever month or so. I basically stopped trying to schedule these interactions because it became clear it was having such a negative impact on his emotions. I initially tried to avoid talking at all about kids and all that but it didn’t seem to help the situation.
Anyway that’s what I just went through and at this point I don’t know if we’ll ever connect again, it’s been 6 months since we exchanged emails, which used to be daily / multiple exchanges a week.
As the guy on the other side of this. I had a few great friends known since 8th grade. Once they had kids, I have nothing in common to talk to them about. Still love when I heard just a whats up. But also know feel the shift in their priorities. And also when you have all the time and have to schedule very far out to see a friend who has no time due to family, it just kind of naturally makes it harder.
If I move off Cursor, it's def not going to be to another vs-code derivative.
Zed has it right - build it from the ground up, otherwise, MS is going to kneecap you at some point.
Zed didn't build from the ground up though. I mean, they did for a lot of stuff, but crucially they decided to rely on the LSP ecosystem so most of the investment in improving Zed is also a direct investment in improving VSCode.
If you can't invest in yourself without making the same size investment in your competitor, you probably have no path to actually win out over that competitor.
Additionally, Zed is written in Rust and has robust hardware-accelerated rendering. This has a tangible feel that other editors do not. It feels just so smooth, unlike clunky heavyweight JetBrains products. And it feels solid and sturdy, unlike VS Code buffers, which feel like creaky webviews.
Thx for posting this I never ran across it before. I too played the original when it came out and actually wrote to Atari after I found the invisible dot and the hidden room / Easter egg. They wrote me back and told me I was one of the first people to find / report it to them which was kind of an honor for my eight-year-old self. I wish I kept that letter lol
Maybe they need to evoke a sort of sleep so they can clear these out while dreaming, sorta like if humans don’t sleep enough hallucination start penetrating waking life…
Not at all, but I think a lot of these companies have something in place which is roughly equivalent to a budget of resources they are willing to put towards processing your requests in a given time frame (independently of context windows) that artificially acts that way.
I can get a couple of hours of good responses out of Gemini (with a fixed price monthly payment) working on a project per day before quality takes a serious nosedive.
