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The call to action button says "Get Started for Free", while the pricing page lists $20/month.

Clicking the get started button immediately wants me to sign up with github.

Could you explain on the pricing page (or just to me) what the 'free' is? I'm assuming a trial of 1 month or 1 PR?

I'm somewhat hesitant to add any AI tooling to my workflows, however this is one of the use cases that makes sense to me. I'm definitely interested in trying it out, I just think its odd that this isn't explained anywhere I could find.

That was a great read. Thanks for sharing.

because it's 2025—Zed can ask your preferred LLM to write the message for you

Zed seems to have a lot going for it. Though the everpresent AI push has me concerned to invest my time into learning its intricacies, for fear of it devolving into Yep Another AI Editor.

I'm in the same boat as the person you're responding to. I really don't understand how to get anything helpful out of ChatGPT, or more than anything basic out of Claude.

I've found that if you treat it more like a colleague, it works wonderfully. This is what I've been trying to do. I don't use LLM code completion tools. I'll ask anything from how to do something "basicish" with html & css, and it'll always output something that doesn't work as expected. Question it and I'll get into a loop of the same response code, regardless of how I explain that it isn't correct.

On the other end of the scale, I'll ask about an architectural or design decision. I'll often get a response that is in the realm of what I'd expect. When drilling down and asking specifics however, the responses really start to fall apart. I inevitably end up in the loop of asking if an alternative is [more performant/best practice/the language idiomatic way] and getting the "Sorry, you're correct" response. The longer I stay in that loop, the more it contradicts itself, and the less cohesive the answers get.

I _wish_ I could get the results from LLMs that so many people seem to. It just doesn't happen for me.

Many say this, but not once have I ever had to do it. Lift the pump and wait for the attendant to approve. Then pay after.

I have spent the last couple of days playing with Copilot X Chat, to help me learn Ruby on Rails. I'd have thought that Rails would be something it would be competent with.

My experience has been atrocious. It makes up gems and functions. Rails commands it gives are frequently incorrect. Trying to use it to debug issues results in it responding with the same incorrect answer repeatedly, often removing necessary lines.

I only found out about this benefit of iCloud+ a few days ago, thankfully a few days before my prior solution was due to renew for another 2 years at a vastly more expensive rate.

Certainly easy to set up. DNS with CloudFlare and it was able to do it all with just a login confirmation from my side of things.

Which popups are these? The only one I ever received was when I hit the limit on my iCloud account. Certainly not anywhere as bad as all the adverts in teh start menu on my Windows work machine.

This is exactly what I have been going through for the last year or two. I even changed jobs, finding a role that was supposed to be better. At a company that would allow my skills to improve, while having what I assumed would be a better run company.

Unfortunately the new company is so full of corporate BS that I'm finding it even harder to get through each day. I genuinely feel like there are staff who are hired to 'improve productivity' through implementing Agile company wide, are actually doing everything in their power to slow things down. I've never seen this amount of unneeded meetings in my calendar, all in the name of 'planning'.

I completely agree with you. Every single job offer I have received has come through direct listings from the company itself.

Safe to say the quality of tech recruiters in New Zealand is even lower than those elsewhere.

I completely agree with this. I recently started a new role that requires me to run 2 separate VDIs. The latency is incredibly frustrating. How people have been working like this for years I do not know. Beyond the latency the resource allocation is far too low. Things just take so much longer to run and Microsoft Teams grinds to a halt if anything else is happening.

Ive been told when my managed device arrives I will no longer need to use either VDI, but if that's not the case I am very seriously considering moving onto another role despite being only ~2 months in.

Unfortunately their store was closed thoughout most of 2021 due to COVID. I orded a Advantage 2 from the sole NZ distributor who do not honour that deal. Cost 500USD only to discover it was very uncomfortable for an "ergonomic" keyboard. I dont think my shoulders are particularly far apart but I still had massive pain due to the ulnar deviation caused by the keywells not sitting at an angle that suited by shoulders.

Another few hundred dollars in mods to get QMK and lower thumb keys and while some other issues were resolved, I cannot type on it for more than a minute without intense pain in my left wrist.

I must be the only person on HN that dislikes my Kinesis Advantage 2. I bought one in 2021 after the ZSA Moonlander didnt quite meet my expectations. While the keywell idea is amazing, i found that the two halves of the keyboard weren't angled towards each other enough and I still had very painful ulnar deviation.

This wasn't helped by it being so far off the keyboard tray. I don't understand how someone can use the Advantage 2 without a standing desk. Even with a keyboard tray I am unable to sit my feet flat on the ground without my thighs and knees smashing into the tray the whole time.

I ended up buying a custom board for it to run QMK, as well as replacement thumb cluster keys to try lower their height as they also caused pain. These both helped a bit but thanks to their store being closed due to Covid, I had to buy off a distributor in NZ that charged the equivelent of 500USD, before spending even more on the mods done. Unfortunately ive gone back to the Moonlander as I can at least angle the boards more after wasting around $1000 NZD.

While this will solve the positioning of the keys, the height looks like it will still be an issue for me.

Come on mate they've linked it back to a case in managed isolation. It's not like he walked off the plane and went straight to the Auckland CBD.

Even in New Zealand the definitions of each level aren't entirely clear. To the point that our Health minister has been caught out multiple times breeching our lockdown conditions.

A few days ago we reduced alert level and many people and businesses have been witnessed breaking the conditions. Some people were always going to do whatever they want, but there are many other that have been confused by rules that change day to day.

For many people including myself, this is something that goes away over time. If you are concerned about it, avoid psychedelics as well as cannabis.

I had to have my mid 2015 rMBP battery & top case replaced by a premium service provider in New Zealand due to a bulging battery. Thankfully I still had a couple of weeks of AppleCare left as the bill came to over $1300NZD ($850 USD). A $199 replacenent would be a dream.

In New Zealand, GST (15%) is paid by consumers on all purchases, from groceries to phone sales.