Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding

Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding by dmix on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:57PM (#44965765)

deltadb sounds interesting. AI editors should look into letting you operate on multiple git branches simultaneously, like isolated browser tabs where the AI gen doesn't contaminate the other.

One of the reasons I find LLMs don't increase productivity much is that I can't switch branches to multitask while it's processing. Context switching isn't always useful but there's still lots of opportunities for rapidly experimenting or ticking off a couple small bugs quickly while AI takes the first pass on something more complicated.

Each "branch tab" could have a sort of TODO list or plan.

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Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding by porphyra on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:59PM (#44965788)

I have been running multiple instances of the Codex CLI tool in several terminals to do different stuff. You can even checkout the repo several times, write the todo to a file (or ask the agent to do so), if you need.

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Re:Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding by irskep on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:24PM (#44966031)

> AI editors should look into letting you operate on multiple git branches simultaneously

Git worktrees are great for this. I built a little tool to make them more ergonomic: https://steveasleep.com/autowt/

You really don't need every LLM vendor to build their own version of worktrees.

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