Zed

“Something that would make me happy is that instead of one more fork of VS code, people just had a great API for surfacing a great agent experience into a tool that was welcoming to that. We don't need to be sharp elbowed about controlling all of that.”

“We wanted to collaborate, not commit by commit, but keystroke by keystroke. And that's kind of a weird thing for human beings to want to do. It seems like in this world, like our team works that way. We work a lot together in real time, but a lot of people, th…”

“Like one is you can sort of change your configuration setting point, you know, point to an MCP binary and you know, Zed just runs that binary. That's one path. The other path that I'm also really excited about is, like, going through our extension store.”

“We have code indexing like sort of in flight right now, but I think we're probably gonna launch without it just because we're seeing value being delivered already without it.”

“Like one of the cool things about the way we've done testing and thus far in Zed is everything is fully deterministic. We even simulate like network interaction and we literally simulate the scheduler such that we can interleave deterministically network messa…”

“I mean, to me, the moat Z's moat is like implementing really nice product experiences with technical excellence and their performance, like just delivering a really great user experience that in order to compete with, you would have to Essentially build your o…”

“So there's a, there was a lot of like integration work to bridge that gap, but now the LLMs, because they've taken on this tool calling and are getting better at tool calling, the story is the integration story has definitely gotten a lot easier. I think it's …”

“Like the rest of Zed fully open source, the data that it's trained on is actually open. We're collecting data from any, if you're editing an open source project in Zed, you can opt in to collect the data.”

“So yeah, we started with Quinn, 2.5 coder B and went through the whole process. Collecting examples, fine tune, doing supervised fine tuning, doing direct preference optimization.”

“So I can see other points in the trade-off space making sense for different apps, but for an editor, I don't, I think this is what it takes to build the editor I want to use, put it that way.”

“Now we're gonna actually ship it to a browser tab. I'm hoping later this year, we'll see.”

“Like the fact that we even made the investments necessary to Have enough control to deliver excellent performance and collaboration will also give us the control I think it takes to build sort of the first editor that's truly engineered from the ground up for …”

“Now it turns out that like the fact that we're collaborative helps a lot also with AI. The fact that we're performant also helps a lot with AI.”

“And we've essentially engineered an entire editor from an empty repo to up to about over a half a million lines of rust.”

“Zed runs at a 120 frames a second, reliably delivering frames.”