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This doesn't seem ready for real use. Testing it right now, is miles slower than Cursor for simple edits in the AI panel, and behaves in what seems to be a broken way. I gave up after it started to type out my entire file from scratch for every edit and presenting a diff for the entire file, rather than the few lines that were changed.

Does it not do incremental edits like Cursor? It seems like the LLM is typing out the whole file internally for every edit instead of diffs, and then re-generates the whole file again when it types it out into the editor.




Hey! Zed co-founder here.

We actually stream edits and apply them incrementally as the LLM produces them.

Sometimes we've observed the architect model (what drives the agentic loop) decide to rewrite a whole file when certain edits fail for various reasons.

It would be great if you could press the thumbs-down button at the end of the thread in Zed so we can investigate what might be happening here!




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