Comment by mirekrusin

Comment by mirekrusin 7 days ago

AI aided development has first class support in Zed.

Ie. it's not a "plugin" but built-in ecosystem developed by core team.

Speed of iterations on new features is quite impressive.

Their latest agentic editing update basically brought claude code cli to the editor.

Most corporations don't have direct access to arbitrary LLMs but through Microsoft's Github's Copilot they do – and you can use models through copilot and other providers like Ollama – which is great for work.

With their expertise (team behind pioneering tech like electron, atom, teletype, tree sitter, building their own gpu based cross platform ui etc.) and velocity it seems that they're positioned to outpace competition.

Personally I'd say that their tech is maybe two orders of magnitude more valuable than windsurf?

bilekas 7 days ago

I don't dispite Zed is great, I actually am using it myself, but it's an editor first and foremost. The OP, to me at least seems to be asking more-so about the AI agent comparisons.

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drcongo 7 days ago

Cursor and Windsurf are both forks of VS Code, an editor.

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- bilekas 7 days ago
  
  Yes very observant, modified forks with their agents built in. Zed does not have any built in, sublime does not have agents built in but if you like you can continue this disingenuous discussion.
  
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  mirekrusin 6 days ago
  
  Zed has it built in, it's called "agentic editing" [0] and behaves like claude code cli and other agents – mcp based editing, iterating on tests until they pass etc. – where you leave it in a background window and can do something else waiting for completion notification or you can follow it to see what changes it is doing.
  It's not only that they have it built in but it seems to be currently the best open replacement for tools like claude code cli because you can use arbitrary llm with it, ie. from ollama and you have great extension points (mcp servers, rules, slash commands etc).
  [0] https://zed.dev/agentic
  
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  drcongo 6 days ago
  
  Thank you for your kind offer, I shall take you up on it. Zed does have it built in. Now, please continue your disingenuous conversation by repeatedly claiming something that is demonstrably not true.
  
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  frainfreeze 7 days ago
  
  I was under impression Zed had native LLM integration, built into the editor?
  
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