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0 pointshollowturtle5mo ago0 comments

Totally disagree. One example is Zed which is very well known and it's faster than any other editor, wasn't built with AI though.

> People on larger companies are not at the edge of AI coding

False Microsoft is all in with Copilot, and I can't believe the company that created Copilot doesn't use it internally, I'd rather say they should be the ones that would know how to master it! Yet no better vscode, still bloated teams etc etc

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PretzelPirate5mo ago· 2 in thread

> Yet no better vscode, still bloated teams etc etc

Why do you assume that Microsoft would focus on building a better (to you) VSCode or less bloated Teams?

I assume they'd use Github Copilot to make a more profitable VSCode and Teams, which doesn't require focusing on speed and bloat.

hollowturtleOP5mo ago

I'm not assuming, the whole narrative goes like "software development is a solved problem and a sunken cost" Ok if the cost is low why not then? It makes sense to improve your product and strenghten your market position

PretzelPirate5mo ago

> Ok if the cost is low why not then?

There are still budgets that constrain on how much you can achieve.

If Microsoft thinks using AI to add more AI features will be more profitable than increasing performance, the that's where they'll spend their budget.

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throwup2385mo ago· 1 in thread

> One example is Zed which is very well known and it's faster than any other editor, wasn't built with AI though.

Not according to a Zed team member, in these very comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522437

hollowturtleOP5mo ago

They haven't started Zed with vibe coding but rather now iterating over the stable and mature codebase for making changes/fixing bugs, comment is out of topic

scottyeager5mo ago· 1 in thread

Do you mean to say Zed wasn't vibe coded? There's actually another comment on this post describing how someone is using Opus 4.5 to work on Zed. Given how forward the AI features are in Zed I'd be surprised if the team wasn't also embracing it internally.

It's a fair question how much AI is accelerating the development of Zed, but I can say that I've been impressed with the speed they are shipping at.

hollowturtleOP5mo ago

Indeed it wasn't vibe coded, using LLMs to iterate over a mature and well structured codebase is another thing and won't obliterate the existince of software programmers

pluralmonad5mo ago

I don't recall if it was an AGENT.md or CLAUDE.md but one of those was definitely in the Zed repo last time I looked at it. Someone is using AI to work on it.

ciupicri5mo ago

Zed fast? No way as I've mentioned last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42819817

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PretzelPirate5mo ago· 2 in thread

> Yet no better vscode, still bloated teams etc etc

Why do you assume that Microsoft would focus on building a better (to you) VSCode or less bloated Teams?

I assume they'd use Github Copilot to make a more profitable VSCode and Teams, which doesn't require focusing on speed and bloat.

hollowturtleOP5mo ago

PretzelPirate5mo ago

> Ok if the cost is low why not then?

There are still budgets that constrain on how much you can achieve.

If Microsoft thinks using AI to add more AI features will be more profitable than increasing performance, the that's where they'll spend their budget.

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throwup2385mo ago· 1 in thread

> One example is Zed which is very well known and it's faster than any other editor, wasn't built with AI though.

Not according to a Zed team member, in these very comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522437

hollowturtleOP5mo ago

They haven't started Zed with vibe coding but rather now iterating over the stable and mature codebase for making changes/fixing bugs, comment is out of topic

scottyeager5mo ago· 1 in thread

It's a fair question how much AI is accelerating the development of Zed, but I can say that I've been impressed with the speed they are shipping at.

hollowturtleOP5mo ago

Indeed it wasn't vibe coded, using LLMs to iterate over a mature and well structured codebase is another thing and won't obliterate the existince of software programmers

pluralmonad5mo ago

I don't recall if it was an AGENT.md or CLAUDE.md but one of those was definitely in the Zed repo last time I looked at it. Someone is using AI to work on it.

ciupicri5mo ago

Zed fast? No way as I've mentioned last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42819817

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