[prodigycorp]

I have an uneasy feeling in my stomach because i know anthropic or openai acquiring zed is inevitable. They have too many good ideas and their software is too good.

[clickety_clack]

Ya, their coding harness is way better than Claude code, but because it’s directly using the clause api it’s way more expensive. Rolling it into the family would make it product-class-defining.

[darepublic]

They drove up to my house with a dump truck full of money... Im not made of stone!

[elevation]

> I have an uneasy feeling in my stomach because i know anthropic or openai acquiring zed is inevitable. They have too many good ideas and their software is too good.

Why stop at zed? The trillion dollar investment AI companies have amassed was nominally for datacenters, but as those costs rise and completion timelines extend past the typical business planning horizon, it becomes more efficient to put the money to work elsewhere. You can buy whatever you want with a trillion dollars.

[whazor]

Seems like where anthropic or openai want to go, there are no editors anymore.

I personally want better read-only code tools, or maybe the return of UML?

[prodigycorp]

I think it's the other way around. OpenAI is definitely recreating the IDE from scratch with codex app.

[jimbokun]

Hmm has there been much success just feeding mermaid diagrams to an agent and having it generate code to implement it?

I imagine many people have tried this but I haven’t yet. And mermaid swim lane diagrams are my go to tool for designing system architecture.