Coding Agents: zed.dev
AI summary of the linked articleThe author, who writes under the handle papa, argues that AI-integrated tooling, using Zed as the example, lets one developer build full-stack systems in weeks that previously needed a team of five over six months. Two projects are described in detail: MegaVibe, a decentralized tipping platform with Mantle blockchain micropayments and GPS-verified proof-of-presence, which the author says was delivered as an MVP in 1 week for under $500 in infra and tooling costs; and ImperfectCoach, an AI coaching app built on OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude, created in under 4 weeks. The article also includes a comparison table claiming Zed starts in under one second and uses about 150MB of RAM, versus 3-5 seconds and about 500MB for VS Code. |
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4 comments Is that an ad for zed?! I do acknowledge the technical depth of the Prototypes, but all linked prototypes severely lack UI parts and really look prototypes, but not from 2025 but prototypes from 2005. Arguably yes, its a prototype, but really, broken menubars, broken animations, entirely missing loading states or start-states, broken UI design and overflowing containers left and right. What I am trying to get at is that its really hard to do: with any of the newer models its actually really hard to make it look like that. The models are insanely good at applying best practices, where it looks almost a bit too fantastic out of the box. Especially in well known languages such as JS/CSS. I assume it was either a really stringent prompt that led to this result, or maybe just general lack of framework usage? mishaSubmitter Believe it’s not an ad ;) I found it through a post of @papajams on Hey - I think he’s the author also. He’s an active poster and pro user. But maybe ask him about it ;) https://hey.xyz/posts/74kb9bfk5bmp75jp8a okay, now comes an embarrassing question: what is hey.xyz and why is everyone jumping on it suddenly? What am I missing here? mishaSubmitter Just checked the Hey Dune metrics and indeed signups have skyrocketed recently. It has probably to do with the launch of Hey Pro. https://dune.com/heyverse/hey Anyway hey.xyz has been around for a while. It’s one of the instances of Lens lens.xyz , which has now their own L2 chain, Lenschain. Another instance for mobile is Orb https://orb.club , which has just been bought by Mask Network https://www.mask.io (which is even older than Lens). Anyway Lenschain aims to be the social chain :) Avara, the company behind Aave, Lens, and Family is where most of the investing comes from. |