Introducing Zed AI
Introducing Zed AI
Powerful AI-assisted coding powered by Anthropic's Claude, now available.
Problem is, programmers don't want AI. We want better tools that address the issues of complexity and abstract requirements management.
4Problem is, programmers don't want AI.
I wish it was that simple! This is, understandably, the most unpopular post in the community. But I looked around in other websites and saw plenty of programmers quite into LLM tooling. In Zed's repository, you can easily find many users looking forward to more AI features, and even outright requesting them.
Programmers are too diverse a group to generalize like this.
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As someone who doesn’t like AI-based auto-complete but will happily use AI occasionally to ask questions every now and then, it looks like these guys might be on to something.
I’m not using Zed yet, but this is giving me some incentive to try it out.
3I was sceptical at first too, but the way they're not just adding another chatbot, that it is basically a LLM request composing tool is really interesting. Its not trying to hide what an LLM is behind some obscure personality interface, its a text processing tool foremost. I like it!
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Zed AI embodies our belief in open, collaborative software development.
And somehow uses Claude as the AI, a CLEARLY non-open source LLM. Yeah, how about stop using the word Open Source, a clearly proprietary FIRST company. It's like they are trying to lure people in to their walled garden with this "open" and "for the community" kind of attitude before shoving down their closed bullshit.
Why bullshit? Because there are other open source model out there in the wild. Even there are already movement for local first AI using something like Ollama. They don't believe in open collaborative software development. Corpo bullshit like this should be penalized by the community. Somehow.
Please, just say you want to fool us. It's more honest that way.
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