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I only visit X because I feel the AI-assisted developing community is much more vibrant there (they're always raving about @cursor.com.web.brid.gy, @windsurfai.bsky.social, Aider, @anthropic.com's Claude etc. I love developing alongside AI, although it still irks me how energy wasteful it all is.

The moment we can run something on par with Claude 3.5 locally, this will be very transformative (this is arguably already achievable with a really powerful rig or the latest gen of Macbooks, with plenty of memory). @simonwillison.net is our canary for this sort of thing.

Cursor is not my ideal interface (maybe because it is VSCode-based) and Neovim's Avante still felt a bit awkward (granted, that was a few months ago). I found a sweet-spot in Zed. It doesn't have any automatic code editing, which I suppose fits my workflow: I get to be more involved in the editing.