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Oh no.. fuck them, not this shit again..

With AI being so good why isn't someone making fully open source alternatives to all this crap by now?

Oh Zed is open source, maybe Codex/Claude can make a VSCodium-like fork off it?



> With AI being so good why isn't someone...

It baffles me that people ask this question all the time and it never occurs to them that perhaps the answer is "because it isn't".


> perhaps the answer is "because it isn't"

I'm sure it can handle "remove all instances of telemetry"


So why don't you do it? Easy, right?


Gram, a fork of zed, exists already. https://gram.liten.app/

Motivation: https://gram.liten.app/why/


forks exist…




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