No idea what prompted the change (I no longer work at Zed) but I wish they had distinct Service terms /Editor terms.
Now there’s an incentive to fork & build binaries w/o these terms. Feels like an unforced error.
Note: previous terms were 13+ (same as github). 18+ for AI services seems OK to me.
Those terms only apply to the service offerings and official binaries; code is open source.
Under 18 crowd is free to “cargo build —release” and use any other AI service (except Zed Pro).
The big loss is Zed collaboration features. Those require a login and the backend is not open source.
Let me pick shows then present random episodes Tinder-style to hep me build a curated semi-random playlist. This is not rocket science.
No big data, machine learning AI required. Just show me a random episode and ask me if I wanna watch it.
Not a single streaming service has “random” or “I’m feeling lucky” button for television episodes.
When watching Friends, no one wants to choose amongst 236 episodes — pick one and I’ll say yes/no.
We all deserve snow days. ⛄️
Any administrator pushing for 7hrs of zoom meetings for kids should be fired. Requiring employees to work during a state of emergency (especially w/o childcare) should be illegal for non-emergency jobs.
It’s not hard: don’t expect work when things close for snow. ❄️
Sigh. Neither of these programs should exist. Citizens should be treated equally. Full stop. Airline security is not an Amazon Prime or Costco membership.
While we’re at it, abolish the security theater around liquids, shoe removal, pocket knives and scale back the budget accordingly.
2x2 Grid with "Does not use AI" vs "Uses AI": Has good judgment: Steady Hands -> Turbo Brains Does not have good judgement: Dead Weight -> Slop Cannons
Beware of Slop Cannons.
Credit: @hock.bsky.social
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Screenshot of pileup of train cars with the text "I'm sending in more trains!" From Futurama, The Day the Earth Stood Stupid episode. A train derailment occurred and the Governor lady said "I'm sending in more trains" as a solution.
Sometimes AI can be part of a solution.
But more AI isn't always the solution.
GitHub 500 error message saying "Ooops!!!" Octcat, holding a wooden sign with 500. Falling down a canyon Wiley coyote style.
#hugops to GitHub SREs. In addition to the Actions/Issues outage `/sessions/sudo` took me more than a dozen attempts to succeed so things are still obviously not going great.
Also, achievement unlocked: non-unicorn error message.
Same with the new Codex GUI App -- no Intel support. I'm generally happy with my six year old 16inch Macbook Pro but I guess it's just time to to bite the bullet and drop $3k on an ARM one.
Would love it if the BlueSky iOS app had a “Save Video” feature like they do for images.
I understand why Twitter/Facebook don’t want this (they would prefer you to share so they can measure/increase engagement) but would love it if BlueSky went a different way.
Cc: @pfrazee.com
I know reading and writing code isn't cool anymore, but how are folks doing this? My workflow of toggling between a PR tab in Chrome and a local @zed.dev seems really silly.
I'm sure there would be design constraints so showing both at the same time would be hard but even a toggle between "diff HEAD" and "diff main" would be amazing. I don't want to have to open a PR or a dedicated git compare tool to do code review/code cleanup.
Why do none of the mainstream editors let you specify an arbitrary git ref to diff against? I know tools can diff two arbitrary commits in a compare view but I want this inline while editing. It appears VSCode, JetBrains and Zed only support inline diff against HEAD.
When I moved to the bay area the complete lack of rye/pumpernickel as compared to NYC/New England was staggering.
I understand people love sourdough (it’s fine) but in no universe is it a substitute for pumpernickel or marble rye.
My gut says that much of the previous failures stemmed from the fact that trailing whitespace is significant in diff/patch files. Each line is prefixed with "+" (add), "-" (delete) or " " (preserve) so I blank line with just a single space is **VERY IMPORTANT**.
Found a setup that was successful.
Switched from a directory with each Lua version to a checkout of the lua git repo and encouragemed the model to change HEAD as required.
So instead of editing a patch file (hard) it edited files (easy) and ran `git -C lua diff` (easy) to generate new patch files.
I found something where current LLMs struggle.
Task: Update a Lua 5.4.0 patch set to work with Lua 5.4.3.
Perhaps repeatedly generating patch tool patches for patching patches is just too much patching.
Yikes! You can add `“auto_update”: false` to your settings and revert to an older non-broken version.
Zed issue written by @notpeter describing a feature for supporting autocomplete of LSP settings/initialization_options in Zed settings.json.
P.S. Look ma! I’m on the youtubes!
Congrats to @nereuxofficial.bsky.social on landing a neat feature in Zed. And thanks to Amos for sweetening the pot.
I’ve had great experiences with Gemini, especially with extremely detailed plans, but GPT 5.2 in Codex has been very hit or miss for me.
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Seems like Antirez has had good results too
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I’m a helper
You might enjoy the setup @quinnypig.com built. A bot that generates not-so-nice responses for unwanted messages and then gives him a queue to approve and send.
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The clearest introduction to at:proto I’ve seen yet.
Cigarette Lighter & Cupholder or bust.
Screenshot of Codex trying to view GIF screenshots. Planning to ask the user to convert their images to PNG format or provide screenshots to avoid the current issue. This clarification will also apply to viewing other images with similar problems." I can’t view GIFs with the image tool. Please provide PNGs (or JPGs), or point me at still frames extracted from those GIFs, and I’ll review them.
Sigh, Codex only supports PNG/JPG for viewing images (not GIF, HEIC, etc). Also a great example of where it's "Planning" is redundant and a waste of tokens. It doesn't even both to offer a solution: e.g. "would you like me to use imagemagick and convert to png?" (btw these are non-animated gifs)
Yesterday’s prompt (“continue iterating till you can parse the corpus”) rendered it braindead — after regex trouble it decided to hard code match arms, panic on new values, rinse and repeat.
match length {
“33mm” => 33,
“35mm” => 35,
“35 mm” => 35,
_ => panic!
}
What a waste of tokens.
This does something funky on the iPhone if you press and hold. Looks like it confuses the iPhone’s edge detection algorithm for creating stickers and does this fun loop instead.
This does something funky on the iPhone if you press and hold. Looks like it confuses the iPhone’s edge detection algorithm for creating stickers and does this fun loop instead.
