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Tried Zed AI for a bit as a heavy user of Cursor, a few thoughts - I like that they are trying something different with the assistant panel view by providing end users full control of the context as opposed to Cursor's "magic" approach. There is a huge tradeoff between the granularity of control and efficiency however. The friction for manually filling in context for the assistant window might repel devs from using it constantly. - Zed AI is still missing a lot of UX details in terms of their inline assistant capabilities. e.g. pressing ctrl+? for inline assist only selects the current line, and users will have to manually select a block of code for inline assist, which is really annoying. In cursor, cmd+k automatically selects the surrounding code block - Definitely a huge plus that we get to choose our own LLM providers with Zed AI.


I think Zed is starting with a more transparent elegant foundations and then they'll build in more optional magic from there. For example, they're working on automatic codebase RAG




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