- agrippanux parentThe tips in the article on enabling vi mode and fzf keybind are worth the read imho
- Their multiple rounds of VC funding are predicated on their vision of collaboration so they gotta make a go at it.
- Management and product needing vision and foresight is an excellent call out. I can't help but think a lot of these self-proclaimed 9-9-6 startups are in reality 11-3-6 startups with a bunch of wasted time padding to 9-9-6.
- Oh I remember a time before CDNs and a big part of your startup fundraise was to build out your own setup inside a data center.
- Their burn agent mode is pretty badass, but is super costly to run.
I'm a big fan of Zed but tbf I'm just using Claude Code + Nvim nowadays. Zed's problem with their Claude integration is that it will never be as good as just using the latest from Claude Code.
- These extreme rounded corners are super triggering my desktop OCD
Text on frosted glass over other text is really hard to read
We need an option to turn these “improvements” off
FWIW my system does feel more snappy and the improvements to Spotlight are nice
- I love Zed but this has all the hallmarks of something being totally rushed out the door.
It works off the Claude Code SDK, which mean it doesn't support many of the built in slash commands - it doesn't support /compact, which is 100% necessary because when you use this implementation enough, you'll eventually get a "Prompt too long" error message with no ability to do anything about it. Since you can't see how far you are in the context window, it's a deal breaker, since you have to start a fresh chat and might run out of room before you can ask it to create a summary prompt for continuing.
There is no way to switch models that I can tell - I think it just picks up on your default model - and there is no way to switch to Plan mode, which has become absolutely crucial to my workflow.
I didn't see Zed picking up on problems reported in the IDE, it was defaulting to running 'tsc -b' in my directories.
At this point it's better to run a terminal inside Zed and work from there. The official response in the Zed Discord has been "talk to your local Anthropic rep" to get them to support Zed's Agent Client Protocol (ACP).
- Bun has been awesome for me and my team fwiw
- From the article:
> What I found interesting is how it forced me to think differently about the development process itself. Instead of jumping straight into code, I found myself spending more time articulating what I actually wanted to build and high level software architectural choices.
This is what I already do with Claude Code. Case in point, I spent 2.5 hours yesterday planning a new feature - first working with an agent to build out the plan, then 4 cycles of having that agent spit out a prompt for another agent to critique the plan and integrate the feedback.
In the end, once I got a clean bill of health on the plan from the “crusty-senior-architect” agent, I had Claude build it - took 12 minutes.
Two passes of the senior-architect and crusty-senior-architect debating how good the code quality was / fixing a few minor issues and the exercise was complete. The new feature worked flawlessly. It took a shade over 3 hours to implement what would have taken me 2 days by myself.
I have been doing this workflow a while, but Claude Code released Agents yesterday (/agents) and I highly recommend them. You can define an agent on the basis of another agent, so crusty-architect is a clone of my senior-architect but it’s never happy unless code was super simple, maintainable, and uses well established patterns. The debates between the two remind me of sitting in conf rooms hashing an issue out with a good team.
- How does this compare to Google Diffusion? Diffusion writes out at seemingly the speed of thought.
- I use AI to help my high-school age son with his AP Lang class. Crucially, I cleared all of this with his teacher beforehand. The deal was that he would do all his own work, but he'd be able to use AI the help him edit it.
What we do is he first completes an essay by himself, then we put it into a Claude chat window, along with the grading rubric and supporting documents. We instruct Claude to not change his structure or tone but edit for repetitive sentences, word count, correct grammar, spelling, and make sure his thesis is sound and pulled throughout the piece. He then takes that output and compares it against his original essay paragraph-by-paragraph, and he looks to see what changes were made and why, and crucially, if he thinks its better than what he originally had.
This process is repeated until he arrives at an essay that he's happy with. He spends more time doing things this way than he did when he just rattled off essays and tried to edit on his own. As a result, he's become a much better writer, and it's helped him in his other classes as well. He took the AP test a few weeks ago and I think he's going to pass.
- Yesterday I threatened Gemini 2.5 I would replace it with Claude if it didn’t focus on the root of the problem and it immediately realigned its thinking and solved the issue at hand.
- I had a similar conversation with my CEO today - how does the incoming crop of college grads deal with the fact AI can do a lot of entry level jobs? This is especially timely for me as my son is about to enter college.
So I ended up posing the question to Claude and the response was “figure out how to work with me or pick a field I can’t do” which was pretty much a flex.
- But how many goats does pouchdb have? I'm betting 0.
- Slightly off-topic because it’s for MacOS, but the new Image Playground has been fantastic for generating assets while I’ve been prototyping a new game.
- A little over a year ago I was checking my home network logs and realized my smart TVs were sending gigs of data to Roku servers - when the TVs were off.
I killed all internet access for my TVs, bought Apple TVs to attach to them and never looked back.
- What was an amazing fight - that Serrano won. I have no idea how Taylor was scored the winner.
- I'm so glad I'm not in high school - my default writing style is eerily similar to ChatGPT and I'm sure I would be flagged constantly.
My middle school English classes were dominated by sentence diagramming - I'm not sure that's taught anymore. I hated it at the time but damn if it wasn't effective.
- I swapped my high school son’s iPhone for an Apple Watch w/cellular for school days and his grades and social life improved significantly.
- When “Out Come The Wolves” by Rancid hit 20 years I was starting to feel my age.
- I have a CEO acquaintance who bumped up their LinkedIn posting substantially in the last year - tons of long form “this is what I’ve learned running my company” posts. I asked a friend there how much time that CEO spends crafting these multiple posts a week and they said 0, he hired a ghostwriter to post on his behalf.
Smart I guess but feels totally disingenuous.
- I was a newly hired Director of Engineering a company that drank the Kool-Aid of Agile and had an independent team of Scrummasters who just facilitated morning stand-ups. They had no project management responsibilities, so I kept asking what do they do all day after the morning stand-up and no one could answer me. I got severe pushback that they should take on any set of greater responsibilities.
I founded several new teams at that company and was approached by the head of the Scrummasters to integrate with their process. I flatly said no, I don't need your services, I've been running teams for 20 years and I'm good. It became this huge blowup that went all the way up the chain of execs until a compromise was reached - I had to accept Scrummasters for my teams but I could direct them to do nothing except basic JIRA ticket shuffling.
Fast forward a few years, I've left that place, but my teams became the centerpieces of the company and all new teams are now modeled after them. The Scrummaster team was cut in half.
The best part is my team structure is closer to the spirit of Agile with self-organizing teams empowered to operate how best suits them and the Scrummaster team was forcing rigid ceremonies that were at best time consuming and at worst completely useless.
- I got hit up over several emails by a startup doing AI recruiting. I never replied back because it was hard to tell if it was actually the CEO reaching out to me because of my experience, or his AI system reaching out to me.
I thought, if I’m having this sort of issue figuring out if the contact is genuine, how will I feel working on this product? Even if it is genuine, is it ethical to have been recruited by a real person to work on a product that fools people into thinking they’ve been contacted by a real person?
- That’s my favorite effort they ever did, apparently it was hell to record because it’s an 18 minute continuous take.
Many of the lyrics became more relevant after 2016.
- I've seen several Oceans driving around my city and the only thing I think is, "oh boy now there's someone who enjoys living on the edge".
- I went to high school in the early 90’s. Every kid I knew with a pager (about 5) used it primarily to buy or sell pot.
- Their plan is to make really elegant team-based shared coding features baked right into the editor - think a mashup of VSCode + Slack, and then charge for that, likely as a monthly subscription. It's not a bad idea if it can increase team velocity but the requirement would be enough people on the team live within it to justify the cost.
I drove Zed for about a month, its very performant and a joy to use, but the lack of a remote development feature is massively prohibitive and I went back to VSCode as a result.
- I needed something like this today - was going to download Insomnia but I happened to check HN.
I tried it out; it's exactly what I wanted. Postman, as echoed in previous comments, has gotten out of control with the upsell and the confusing UI.
I bought the pre-order, seems like a good deal at $9, that's nearly the cost of a latte around here and if this works out I'll get a lot more use out of it than a latte.
- On their start date, I would to tell new grads assigned SRE / DevOps roles that their job was thankless and at best if everything worked fine no one would notice them. However, if anything went wrong, they'd not only be on the hook to fix but would do so under tremendous pressure. "Who wants this responsibility?" I'd ask.
Those who decided they were up for it usually did a great job, about half opted out at the end of the conversation and were put in roles more suited to their ability to handle stress.