> I myself am the intelligence. My goal is to learn and improve, always.
And yet you don't want to spend a few hours in two years to see what's up with AI and what others are doing when they say they use it?
> If I can’t make the things I can think of then either I’m not a very good artist or I need a better instrument. If I pay someone else to play my instrument for me, then I stop getting better at it and they start getting better at it.
Do you use a spell checker, or do you remember how everything is spelled? Do you use a fuzzy finder, or do you remember every file path? Do you use autocomplete or do you type out every name?
The last paragraph here has definite "everybody does things the way I do them" vibes, so:
> Do you use a spell checker, or do you remember how everything is spelled?
I avoid spell checkers. Usually I know how a word is spelled or can work it out and if I'm not sure then I fire one up to check or look in a dictionary. Even turning on the fancy mis-spelling highligher is fraught with danger because the American dictionary is always the default and computer code is full of non-words, abbreviations and other correct things which distractingly skittle-ise my screen.
> Do you use a fuzzy finder, or do you remember every file path?
I have no idea what a "fuzzy finder" is. I remember where I put things, sometimes assisted by find(1) or grep(1) and similar tools.
> Do you use autocomplete or do you type out every name?
I type things out in full, in the same way that I don't mumble and include "y'know?" in every other sentence when I'm talking to people, using some sort of search if I can't remember a symbol precisely (see: spell checker).
Addendum: Notwithstanding pedantic frippery like i-before-e-except-when-a-victorian-era-dictionary-publisher-feels-like-it, not knowing how to spell a word usually means an entertaining half hour spent reading etymonline.com, and why would I give that up and let the machine have all the fun?
Yes, I think you're getting the idea. When the spell-checker tells me I made a mistake, instead of clicking the word I make a point to go back and retype it (usually). I do this because I value knowing how to spell.
Instead of a fuzzy finder I use a file tree, because I can use it to get around very quickly and it gives me a chance to think about whether the organization of my files is still optimal. I do use a very naive autocomplete for variable names in order to help stave off carpel tunnel.
Using these techniques has allowed me to go in a product-development head-to-head with the entire Zed team as (mostly) a single individual, a battle which I think I am currently easily running away with: I'm innovating by leaps and bounds while Zed innovates in the tiniest pre-proven increments.
I allow myself to be guided by pain, but that means not being on painkillers.
The Zed team must be in agony over the Rust choice by now, I would think. The compile times, the intense formalism. Plus you seem to be locked out of providing the Zed user experience in-browser, and a great deal of your organization's energy is now consumed by framework, OS, and hardware support, while very little energy (compared to the amount of talent at least) now seems to reach the highest level goal of innovating on the core experience of code editing.
> I myself am the intelligence. My goal is to learn and improve, always.
And yet you don't want to spend a few hours in two years to see what's up with AI and what others are doing when they say they use it?
> If I can’t make the things I can think of then either I’m not a very good artist or I need a better instrument. If I pay someone else to play my instrument for me, then I stop getting better at it and they start getting better at it.
Do you use a spell checker, or do you remember how everything is spelled? Do you use a fuzzy finder, or do you remember every file path? Do you use autocomplete or do you type out every name?
The last paragraph here has definite "everybody does things the way I do them" vibes, so:
> Do you use a spell checker, or do you remember how everything is spelled?
I avoid spell checkers. Usually I know how a word is spelled or can work it out and if I'm not sure then I fire one up to check or look in a dictionary. Even turning on the fancy mis-spelling highligher is fraught with danger because the American dictionary is always the default and computer code is full of non-words, abbreviations and other correct things which distractingly skittle-ise my screen.
> Do you use a fuzzy finder, or do you remember every file path?
I have no idea what a "fuzzy finder" is. I remember where I put things, sometimes assisted by find(1) or grep(1) and similar tools.
> Do you use autocomplete or do you type out every name?
I type things out in full, in the same way that I don't mumble and include "y'know?" in every other sentence when I'm talking to people, using some sort of search if I can't remember a symbol precisely (see: spell checker).
Addendum: Notwithstanding pedantic frippery like i-before-e-except-when-a-victorian-era-dictionary-publisher-feels-like-it, not knowing how to spell a word usually means an entertaining half hour spent reading etymonline.com, and why would I give that up and let the machine have all the fun?
Yes, I think you're getting the idea. When the spell-checker tells me I made a mistake, instead of clicking the word I make a point to go back and retype it (usually). I do this because I value knowing how to spell.
Instead of a fuzzy finder I use a file tree, because I can use it to get around very quickly and it gives me a chance to think about whether the organization of my files is still optimal. I do use a very naive autocomplete for variable names in order to help stave off carpel tunnel.
Using these techniques has allowed me to go in a product-development head-to-head with the entire Zed team as (mostly) a single individual, a battle which I think I am currently easily running away with: I'm innovating by leaps and bounds while Zed innovates in the tiniest pre-proven increments.
I allow myself to be guided by pain, but that means not being on painkillers.
The Zed team must be in agony over the Rust choice by now, I would think. The compile times, the intense formalism. Plus you seem to be locked out of providing the Zed user experience in-browser, and a great deal of your organization's energy is now consumed by framework, OS, and hardware support, while very little energy (compared to the amount of talent at least) now seems to reach the highest level goal of innovating on the core experience of code editing.