Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
by typpilol on Thursday August 21, 2025 @02:29AM
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Can I ask what kind of work area you're in?
Re:Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first
by creshal on Thursday August 21, 2025 @05:01AM
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Yeah, the more boilerplate your code needs, the better AI works, and the more it saves you time by wasting less on boilerplate.
AI tooling my experience:
- React/similar webdev where I "need" 1000 lines of boilerplate to do what jquery did in half a line 10 years ago: Perfect
- AbstractEnterpriseJavaFactorySingletonFactoryClassBuilder: Very helpful
- Powershell monstrosities where I "need" 1000 lines of Verb-Nouning to do what bash does in three lines: If you feed it a template that makes it stop hallucinating nonexisting Verb-Nouners, perfect
- Abstract algorithmic problems in any language: Eh, okay
- All the `foo,err=…;if err…` boilerplate in Golang: Decent
- Actually writing well-optimized business logic in any of those contexts: Forget about it
Since I spend 95% of my time writing tight business logic, it's mostly useless.
I've tried throwing LLMs at every part of the work I do and it's been entirely useless at everything beyond explaining new libraries or being a search engine. Any time it tries to write any code at all it's been entirely useless.
But then I see so many praising all it can do and how much work they get done with their agents and I'm just left confused.