They say:

> Rather than selling you a proprietary editor, we'd much prefer to sell you services that seamlessly integrate with your editor to make you and your team more productive. Zed Channels is one example of such a service. It's free for anyone today, but we intend to begin charging for private use after a beta period of experimentation. Providing server-side compute to power AI features is another monetization scheme we're seeing getting traction.

But I'm with you. I can't see paying-for-shared-editing working. There are too many people using other random editors.

AI? Yeah maybe. I've paid for Copilot. But now they have to fund an AI research team as well.

I really really hope they succeed but I'd probably still bet against them.