tried using zed, didn't understand how to set up claude code integration, went back to vscode where setting up claude code is trivial

Use the command palette to pick "agent: toggle" - that'll open the agent pane. Pick "Claude Agent" from the dropdown at the top if you see the Zed agent. Should be all you need.

Their ACP integration with Claude agent is extremely broken to the point of being almost unusable. It desyncs and breaks in other ways constantly requiring frequent IDE relaunch. I get that they want you to use their built-in agent but $200 Codex/CC plans are such a good deal it makes very little sense atm and the broken integration is just embarrassing...

crazy how people on hacker news, who just gobble up anything if it's from openai or anthropic suddenly become monocled sceptics when chinese open models are "winning"

it is absolutely a huge deal, I suspect you work daily in python but with a small number of repositories that dont change too often

no, I find Gemini to be the best

what do you mean "catches up"

Gemini has been as good as GPT for more than a year

OpenAI still somehow gets the edge on the initial veneer of hype, and that's running thin

ruff is a blessing as well and soon ty will make type checking so much better (or pyrefly which also seems great)

thanks for this post

it should be repeated ad-nauseam that he is a crook, a shame for the country and its values and that the whole discourse about the injustice of the sentencing has heavy anti-liberal vibes

you're not in the minority, there's just intense fanboyism on Hacker News to promote OpenAI, because it serves the whole "LLM revolution" schtick better

Gemini has been dominating the field for about a year now, but I suppose Google is bit boring cause they just do things well

due to the nature of PDF, none of the tools mentioned here can do things as simple as detecting tables on pages with high accuracy

PDF is absolutely mint for display but it really suffers when parsing is involved

Yeah, I've been expecting someone to work up a system where:

- source file is .md

- file is compiled to .pdf _and_ the .md source file is included as an attachment

- when working with the file beyond viewing as a .pdf the .md is extracted and used instead of the .pdf

The LaTeX folks have a similar system ages ago where the .tex source would be included in a .pdf made from a .tex file for embedding in documents so that it could be sent in say an e-mail and then edited by the recipient --- absolutely awesome for discussing math via e-mail.

That's a good concept but I don't think Markdown is expressive enough for all the layouts & formatting that people typically want in PDFs. More likely that the source format would be something like HTML or SVG or .docx.

Restructured text has mostly 1:1 correspondence with Docbook. I use an XSLT transform to convert its XML schema into Docbook and PDF from there via XSL-FO.

python will be the last man standing with basically no functional goodies

people will keep on trucking with their "pythonic" for loops containg appends to a list that was initialized right before, their disgust for recursion, their absence of lambdas, the lack of monadic return types or containers

> with basically no functional goodies

Python has had `map` and friends for well over 20 years. Also see the built in `functools`

List, dict and set comprehensions, generators are used quite a lot in Python and feel very functional to me.