This may be my next go to editor because of the new seamless inline and assistant panel features that Zed is adding. I can see that they are gearing this up to be a subscription based thing unfortunately… But I will enjoy it for now.
I have been pretty skeptical of AI mostly because so much of it is gimmicky and generally slows me down, but this seems to be a pretty good use of it.
I wanted to write a quick summary of all the cool new commands in the latest release, but then I realized why should I do this when Claude is much faster (and maybe even better). I used the new /fetch Zed command to give context to the blog post and here is what it responded with.
My exact prompt:
/fetch https://zed.dev/blog/zed-ai
give a summary of the blog post and be sure to outline each of slash commands and what they do. Make it succinct and easy to understand in the fewest sentencesClaude 3.5 Sonnet Response:
This blog post introduces Zed AI, a new AI-assisted coding feature integrated into the Zed text editor, developed in collaboration with Anthropic. Key features include:
- An assistant panel for interacting with AI models using slash commands:
/tab: Insert open tab contents/file: Insert specific file or directory contents/terminal: Include terminal output/diagnostics: Insert codebase diagnostic information/fetch: Insert response from an HTTP URL/workflow: Create guided, multi-step code transformations (in development)
Inline transformations for code generation and modification using natural language prompts.
Transparent and editable AI interactions, allowing users to see and control all context provided to the model.
Upcoming features include
/projectfor quick context insertion and/autofor automatic context gathering.The post emphasizes Zed AI’s focus on transparency, control, and extensibility, inviting users to try the service and contribute to its development.
Incredible stuff.