Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding
by esalman on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:41PM
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I understand people’s concerns about Gaza bombing, but I think building quality airstrikes takes capital. The funding is still relatively small, especially compared to global arms giants like Raytheon, etc. And I think our precision drones are a much, much better product—just doing what we have to do!
Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding
by cultofmetatron on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:19PM
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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.
Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding
by esalman on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @06:01PM
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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.
Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding
by ignoramous on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:28PM
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> 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
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Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding
by hashbig on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:19PM
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Can I replace "islamophobic" in your comment with "antisemitic" and not have my comment deleted or my profile banned on this site?
Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding
by ignoramous on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @07:13PM
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> 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).
Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding
by wolvesechoes on Thursday August 21, 2025 @03:40AM
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> I understand people's concerns about VC funding, but I think building quality products takes capital.
When VC funding comes in it stops being about building any products, because the company itself becomes a product.
Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding
by devoutsalsa on Thursday August 21, 2025 @04:37AM
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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.
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!