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zcacereson Zed: Delta

Directly annotating parts of the convo is the feature that really unlocked Delta for me (have been testing the alpha). So much easier than trying to explain to the agent what I'm responding to in their giant text blob.

zcacereson Delta

It's a solid experience so far (have been testing the alpha). Being able to work across model providers in parallel is my preference, rather than being stuck in Codex desktop, for example.

zcacereson Zed: Delta

It's not a full IDE but you can see the files and docs mentioned and created in the Delta chats. I often will pop open the right tab in Delta to check that.

zcacereson Delta

The product is not an IDE, it is exactly the agent-native experience you're saying is required for current gen models.

zcacereson Delta

I have been testing the alpha for the last few weeks. It's very good, especially compared to tools like Conductor. Very bullish on where Zed will take Delta!

zcacereson EasyMCP: Easy model context protocol servers in TypeScript

Framework to define MCP servers using an ExpressJS-like syntax. Or you can use decorators like @Tool() and @Prompt()

zcacereson Show HN: Zed – A high-performance, multiplayer code editor. Now in public beta

Amazing editor. Been using it for the last year and the team has shipped an insane number of features and improvements during that time.

zcacereson Websites that look like desktop GUIs

Thanks a lot :-)

zcacereson Websites that look like desktop GUIs

Love this collection! I'm the creator of https://zach.dev

Thanks a lot for putting it in on this list!

zcacereson The "charter city" movement in Honduras

I am interviewed in this article and have been a close observer of the situation in Honduras since 2011. Many of the concerns raised in this piece are legitimate.

However, Paul Romer's involvement and renunciation do not indicate what people think it does. Romer was also behaving badly just as the government has been. It was sort of a mutually-destructive power struggle that, sadly, hurt the people of Honduras most of all by jeopardizing the integrity of the reforms.

Further, the ideological aspects ('free market zones' etc) distract from a more important idea – namely that cities can incubate better policies more safely, cheaply, and effectively than if reforms are tried first at the national level. Think Lean Startup for political reform.

The use of neighborhoods and municipalities as testbeds for reform is politically neutral... and it ought to stay that way, contrary to the wishes of some in this article!

Please consider visiting www.startupcities.org for a practical alternative to the 'charter cities' idea.