It's very difficult to unseat those incumbents, especially those with strong network effects.
Plus the people that work in those larger companies are not at the edge of AI coding at all and not motivated to rock the boat
> People on larger companies are not at the edge of AI coding
False Microsoft is all in with Copilot, and I can't believe the company that created Copilot doesn't use it internally, I'd rather say they should be the ones that would know how to master it! Yet no better vscode, still bloated teams etc etc
Why do you assume that Microsoft would focus on building a better (to you) VSCode or less bloated Teams?
I assume they'd use Github Copilot to make a more profitable VSCode and Teams, which doesn't require focusing on speed and bloat.
There are still budgets that constrain on how much you can achieve.
If Microsoft thinks using AI to add more AI features will be more profitable than increasing performance, the that's where they'll spend their budget.
Not according to a Zed team member, in these very comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522437
It's a fair question how much AI is accelerating the development of Zed, but I can say that I've been impressed with the speed they are shipping at.