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Re:AI Zealotry by throwup238 on Saturday January 10, 2026 @07:00AM (#46564995)
> Anecdotally, we use Opus 4.5 constantly on Zed's code base, which is almost a million lines of Rust code and has over 150K active users, and we use it for basically every task you can think of - new features, bug fixes, refactors, prototypes, you name it. The code base is a complex native GUI with no Web tech anywhere in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522437

Zed is open source so you can look at their PRs and commit history. They even rolled their own Rust GUI framework for the project so it’s a decent case study of working on code that is barely in the training data (if at all).

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Re:AI Zealotry by tqian on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:27AM (#46565971)
Zed on Linux is buggy as hell. On macos it's somehow more stable. Maybe Zed is indeed a "good" example of Ai-coded products.
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Re:AI Zealotry by tptacek on Saturday January 10, 2026 @02:04PM (#46568863)
This is a thing you can credibly say only if you've never used a popular new non-mainline editor. Sublime Code was "buggy as hell" too; all new editors are. Editors are incredibly difficult to do well. And Zed is doing it on hard mode, cross-platform.
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