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I get the high performance component, but it seems most of their speed is from underlying models supporting a "diff style" edits and that a small percentage of
by tgtweak 1y ago
I get the high performance component, but it seems most of their speed is from underlying models supporting a "diff style" edits and that a small percentage of it is from code-level text-editing optimizations and improvements.
vscode running a typescript extension (cline, gemini, cursor, etc) to achieve LLM-enhanced coding is probably the least efficient way to do it in terms of cpu usage, but the features they bring are what actually speeds up your development tasks - not the "responsiveness" of it all. It seems that we're making text editing and html rendering out to be a giant lift on the system when it's really not a huge part of the equation for most people using LLM tooling in their coding workflows.
Maybe I'm wrong but when I looked at zed last (about 2 months ago) the AI workflow was surprisingly clunky and while the editor was fast, the lack of tooling support and model selection/customization left me heading back to vscode/cline which has been getting nearly two updates per week since that time - each adding excellent new functionality.
Does responsiveness trump features and function?
- rtfeldman 1y ago> Maybe I'm wrong but when I looked at zed last (about 2 months ago) the AI workflow was surprisingly clunky I'm curious what you think of this launch! :D We've overhauled the entire workflow - the OP link describes how it works now.
- DreaminDani 1y agoagreed! I was not a huge fan of the AI integration before in Zed and would always switch to Cursor (or, lately Claude Code) to actually get something done. Now that Zed can target specific pieces of code from the sidebar and edit them directly, it's been my goto for the last 24 hours. I've yet to "eject" to my old tools.