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Sobo: Zed's competitive moat forces competitors to build an editor from scratch
“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…”
Sobo: Custom architecture gives Zed control to build an AI-native editor
“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 …”
Sobo: AI editor moats are shrinking rapidly due to better tool-calling LLMs
“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 …”
Sobo: Great code editors require low-level native graphics APIs, not web tech
“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.”
Sobo: The ecosystem needs open agent APIs, not more VS Code forks
“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.”
Sobo: Zed trains edit prediction models on opt-in user open-source data
“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.”
Sobo: Zed's AI agents will likely launch without dedicated semantic code indexing
“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.”
Sobo: Developers prefer real-time keystroke collaboration with AI agents over other humans
“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…”
Sobo: The Zed editor reliably delivers 120 frames per second
“Zed runs at a 120 frames a second, reliably delivering frames.”
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.”
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.”
Sobo: Zed engineered an editor from scratch to 500,000 lines of Rust
“And we've essentially engineered an entire editor from an empty repo to up to about over a half a million lines of rust.”
Sobo: Zed targets shipping its code editor to browser tabs in 2025
“Now we're gonna actually ship it to a browser tab. I'm hoping later this year, we'll see.”
Sobo: Zed's testing infrastructure is fully deterministic and simulates network scheduling
“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…”