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I love AI and think Zed is dropping the ball big time here. How can they focus their limited resources into developing shitty AI extensions when they should be focusing on absolute deal-breakers, like cross-platform support?

Nobody cares that they can't use Claude on Zed. Everyone cares that they can't use Zed on Windows.

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"Everyone cares that they can't use Zed on Windows."

By "Everyone" I assume you mean "Everyone who uses Windows". I can't imagine us Mac/Linux people care very much.

Yep. It's an easy example to point at which shows how skewed Zed's priorities are. They're seemingly much more interested in adding AI than they are the other 2.7k reported issues on their Github repo. As a Zed user on Mac, that's when I jump ship.

Sure. But that's most users.

> Nobody cares that they can't use Claude on Zed.

I do. I just cancelled Cody subscription because it incredibly slowed down my VSCode. If Zed is able to do advanced AI features that Cody did but remain snappy, I will gladly pay them $20 a month.

> Everyone cares that they can't use Zed on Windows.

There are more users on Windows and Android, but they on average pay less and more often make developer tools purchase decisions as employers, not individuals. If you're starting a small company making new kind of developer tools that is not tailed for corporations, macOS is a much better market.

Hey golergka, sorry to hear about Cody slowing down your VS Code. Would you be able to share more info about this? I haven't seen Cody users complain about this in the past, so trying to understand what the potential issue might have been.

Feel free to email me at ado.kukic@sourcegraph.com if you'd prefer.

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