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I didn't tried Zed in a while, are really intrusive the AI features? Can't it be just disabled with some configuration?

they are not intrusive but their entire focus changed on that instead of other features. Entire Git view feels abandoned in half done state yet they spent entire month working on AI chats, AI agents, their own AI edit (that's priced 20 per month yet they boast how light and performant it is -- why isn't it free local model then and why its priced worse than copilot?)

They're moving from "making awesome code editor" into yet another "buy our ai" product

Wouldn’t the addition of the debugger disprove this slant? Huge feature that has nothing to do with AI.

debugger is very far from being feature-complete, I would call it MVP at the moment; lets see if they will iterate on that or will quickly go back to new shiny thing...

AFAIK they added conflict resolution just recently, so it's not like non-AI features such as Git get no attention at all. And of course the debugger now.

I'm much prefer the VS Code style when you have 2 clear sections: staged and not staged. Zed's chose the IntelliJ style which is just a bunch of checkboxes, I can see it being easier to understand for the novice, but not very intuitive from a git point of view.

Never used Git in Jetbrain IDEs or Zed (yet), but recently VS Code improved a lot the Git by making easier to stage changes in a file in a granular manner (I tried briefly edamagit extension a while ago and now use a lot gitu in the terminal, in combination with VS Code version control).

The fact that they have released both features within 3 months of each other is mind boggling. Their development velocity is insane. These are not trivial features.

Give them some time to polish, jeez.

Copying a buffer into a network call, reading a response, writing the buffer. Not trivial per se, but table stakes for an experienced developer.

Rust probably slows them down here, but working correctly early is preferable imho.

Over simplify much?

Which computer science frontiers are being pushed here at the user interface level, do you think?

(This is referring to their recent integration work. The acceleration layer was usable a year or more ago.)

I suspect their previous “collab editing” marketing angle was probably not a big enough draw. AI features seem to be desired by more people, or at least the hype cycle currently says so.

We have multiple teams at Zed each with their own focus. In fact, you can see all the projects we're working on if you view our channel notes.

We're going to be adding more features to the debugger for a while

I think you're referring to autocomplete? It's much better than, say, 2 years ago when it was indeed annoying as hell. Having said I always turn it off and use agentic coding, which is not intrusive, only activate if you ask for it. This applies to all coding tools these days, autocomplete is no longer their focus.

I don't know, I just uninstalled Zed when I read those features got added

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