VS Code + twenty bloated extensions + scattered AI tools + hacked-on collaboration…

There's got to be something better, right?

So someone finally said: Why is modern coding still duct-taped together—and why is the editor the bottleneck?

Zed isn’t just another editor with “AI features.” It’s built around one ruthless idea: the editor should never slow you down. Every interaction is engineered for speed—instant rendering, zero UI drag—while collaboration and agents are baked into the core instead of bolted on later.

And even the AI features are incredibly flexible: first we added the precise context we need:

Now we send messages to the AI -- we are not even making changes directly, we are creating context...

Context that we can then use with the inline AI -- like telling to apply specific sections of what the AI said as changes:

Blazing fast:

It’s a Rust-built, open-source IDE where performance, multiplayer, and agent workflows are first-class infrastructure. And now that it runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows -- there’s no “my team can’t use it” excuse.

We're already familiar with agentic coding -- but what Zed gets right is where those agents live.

Instead of bouncing between your editor, a terminal, and three side tools, Zed gives you a native Agent Panel inside the editor. Agents can reason over your codebase, propose multi-file changes, and walk you through decisions in the same place you’re already editing.

Even better: Zed isn’t trying to lock you into one model or one workflow. It’s built to plug into the agent tools you already use. If you’re running terminal agents, Zed can talk to them directly. If you’re building toolchains around MCP servers, Zed already speaks that language. The editor becomes the hub where humans and agents actually collaborate instead of taking turns.

This is what makes it different. Not “AI in the editor,” but the editor designed around AI as a teammate.

Zed was built in Rust with a hard focus on performance. It uses modern…

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