I love working in Zed. It really is a delight to use, and I think the Agentic coding integration is really well done. I'm excited to see them investing in this space more.
I understand people's concerns about VC funding, but I think building quality products takes capital. The funding is still relatively small, especially when you compare it to players like Cursor, etc. And I think Zed is a much, much better product!
Zed being OSS is a gift to the community, and I suspect DeltaDB will be as well. And as others have said, Nathan (CEO) is a delightful human.
Maybe you can comment on this. I saw in the Zed demo that they're using "rewrite optimized version Claude". My first thought was wondering how big the bull is going to be.
> And as others have said, Nathan (CEO) is a delightful human.
Hate cancel culture as much as the next techbro, but since y'all point out they're "a delightful human", it'd be interesting to see how Nathan then responds to concerns raised in some quarters: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
> being "islamophobic" is actually the right thing to do from a humanitarian perspective
Every perpetrator of terrorism sees himself as a victim. Such is the case not only with individual terrorists, who often compete with their enemies over who is more victimized, but also with terrorist groups and nation states.
- Bessel van der Kolk (author, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma).
I think a lot of people are missing the sarcasm here. that said, I agree that its absolutely horrific. yesterday I saw a video where a girl who couldn't have been more than 9 or 10 years old carrying water was hit by an idf strike. Poor kid was basically rendered into chum. The fact taht this stuff is going on right in front of our eyes and our government is complicit in is horrific.
I have heard of worse. Check out recent podcast with Tony Aguilar or the Theo Von podcast with a doctor. Boys shot in the testicles. Children shot longitudinally (bullet went through head and lodged in the abdomen)- raising concern if they were shot from choppers or drones. The aid distribution sites are basically hunger games- people only go there if they have death wish, and it is run by private military- you know, the infamous ones from Iraq, Afghanistan or Abu Gharib.
I think it is a very common misconception (by consumers or businesses trying to use LLMs) that fine tuning can be used to inject new knowledge. I'm not sure many of the fine-tuning platforms do much to disavow people of this notion.
Thanks for trying it out! That's good feedback on the voice. It's actually a voice clone of a real voice actor, but I agree there are moments where it still feels not quiittee there.
Yeah it's a great question. We're still exploring how far we can take this. I think we'll be able to get pretty basic examples working in 3.5 (like the Recipe example), but more complicated, flexible UIs will need GPT-4 for now (or some other finetuned model that specializes in this).
Short answer: yes! We think this is actually a super compelling use case, and there are a few different ways to accomplish it. We already support auth mechanisms like Oauth, and there is also agent storage built in.
I understand people's concerns about VC funding, but I think building quality products takes capital. The funding is still relatively small, especially when you compare it to players like Cursor, etc. And I think Zed is a much, much better product!
Zed being OSS is a gift to the community, and I suspect DeltaDB will be as well. And as others have said, Nathan (CEO) is a delightful human.
Congrats, Zed!