From the Zed Blog: Agents handle typing so we can focus on thinking.
I use AI tools every day, both at work and in my side projects. I'm very skeptical of the hype that surrounds them, but very interested in what actually works. In this post, I share both my experience programming with AI in real codebases and my own perspective on what's genuinely useful, what tends to be overhyped, where these tools fall short, and how I'm actually working with them right now.
Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
With the US increasing its hostility to the EU under the Trump administration and all the Big Tech companies sitting in Trump's pocket the EU is looking to migrate to alternatives.
Instead of wanting to learn and improve as humans, and build better software, we’ve outsourced our mistakes to an unthinking algorithm.
After years of skepticism and months of daily use, here's what I've learned about actually working with AI coding agents. They're not replacing us, they're just really fast typers who need constant supervision. Plan first, stay engaged, review everything and the craft is still yours.