I really really don't want comms or multiplayer tools in my IDE.
Don't bring the attention economy to my cave of solitude, it's where I go to escape all that noise
Don't bring the attention economy to my cave of solitude, it's where I go to escape all that noise
A lot of my IDE choices are about extensibility and flexibility more than perfection for my preferred coding approach. After all, until I only work for myself I need to be ready to accommodate the needs of others as part of my job.
I find Zed's feature choices to be really poor, and then I probably made a poor association based on his talking about zed
I have worked quite heavily with Terraform and went through the trough of despair myself. But after a while I realized
1. It does quite a good job at what it does, given the complexity it's handling for us.
2. We have been expecting more and more from the tool.
Mitchell himself called Terraform stuck in the past in some social media platform. However, I don't see Terraform sucking up all the interest and cash in infra, making the landscape barren so nothing else can grow. So, I hope something better will pop up. Until then, Terraform is good for what it does.
A monnumentous yak shave.
I've never used or cared for multiplayer in VSCode or JetBrains. It's silly.
I've never been the pair programmer type. The only time I've needed to share an IDE is during a SEV or ridiculously complicated systems bug, and that's 1% of the time.
1. Until this is possible without lock-in to a specific IDE, it's going to be heavily gated by adoption and network effect.
2. What are you going to do about communication with non-devs who don't use any IDE? Do I now have multiple chat tools I need to give attention to?
3. Bringing the attention economy to our primary work tool is probably a bad idea in the long run, given the evidence we have more broadly about the impact of the attention economy
4. They are also proposing a new version control database, which makes adoption and interoperability an even harder task. https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-o...
5. We are in an AI hype cycle, which comes with a lot of experiments and baggage. We're seeing both fandom and rational pushback against this experiment (and others)