Antonio Scandurra

Co-founder, Zed Industries · 1 appearance on the record.

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Antonio Scandurra is a software engineer and co-founder of Zed Industries, developing the open-source code editor Zed. He previously worked as a core developer on GitHub's Atom text editor and built real-time distributed database systems at Ditto.

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Assertion Supported

Scandurra: Zed fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 Coder using SFT and DPO for Zeta

“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.”

Antonio Scandurra May 7, 2025 ▶ 8:29 Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra

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Insight

Scandurra: Zed's collaborative architecture and native performance structurally benefit AI

“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.”

Antonio Scandurra May 7, 2025 ▶ 4:06 Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Scandurra: Claude 3.7 uniquely gathers full context first before executing code edits

“Like, we've seen this pattern in Cloud 3.7, which is kind of different from the other models where, like, it really loves to gather up context first, and then it starts doing edits.”

Antonio Scandurra May 7, 2025 ▶ 17:39 Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra

Assertion Supported

Scandurra: Zed fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 Coder using SFT and DPO for Zeta

“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.”

Antonio Scandurra May 7, 2025 ▶ 8:29 Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra

Disclosure

Scandurra: Zed supports installing MCP servers via binaries or its extension store

“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.”

Antonio Scandurra May 7, 2025 ▶ 27:51 Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra	May 7, 2025	9m

Antonio Scandurra

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