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Huh? I'm a bit confused by your comment: 1. Zed has been working great for me for ~1.5 years while I ignored its AI features (I only started using Zed's AI fea
by dkersten 1y ago
Huh? I'm a bit confused by your comment:
1. Zed has been working great for me for ~1.5 years while I ignored its AI features (I only started using Zed's AI features in the past 2 weeks). Vim keybindings are better IMHO than every other non-vim editor and the LSP's I've used (typescript, clangd, gleam) have worked perfectly.
2. The edit prediction feature is almost there. I do still prefer Cursor for this, but its not so far ahead that I feel like I want to use Cursor and personally I find Zed to be a much more pleasant editor to use than vscode.
3. When you switch the agent panel from "write" to "ask" mode, its basically that, no?
I'm not into vide coding at all, I think AI code is still 90% trash, but I do find it useful for certain tasks, repetitive edits, and boilerplate, or just for generating a first pass at a React UI while I do the logic. For this, Zed's agent feature has worked very well and I quite like the "follow mode" as a way to see what the AI is changing so I can build a better mental model of the changes I'm about to review.
I do wish there was a bit more focus on some core editor features: ligatures still don't fully work on Linux; why can't I pop the agent panel (or any other panel for that matter) into the center editor region, or have more than one panel docked side by side on one of the screen sides? But overall, I largely have the opposite opinion and experience from you. Most of my complaints from last year have been solved (various vim compatibility things), or are in progress (debugger support is on the way).