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Zed Editor dev-tools 12mo ago

Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based

We're moving Zed AI from prompt-based limits to token-based pricing.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 12mo ago

Vibe Coding in Practice

Manuel Odendahl demonstrates 'vibe coding' - using AI models in parallel without scrutinizing output code.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 13mo ago

Hired Through GitHub: Part 1

Stories from the open source contributors who became core team members.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 13mo ago

Auto Update Post-Mortem

How we broke auto-update in production and how we're addressing it.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 13mo ago

Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

You asked, and here it is. Use Claude Code in public beta directly in Zed, built on the new Agent Client Protocol.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 13mo ago

Bring Your Own Agent to Zed — Featuring Gemini CLI

Zed now lets you use the agent of your choice through the new Agent Client Protocol, starting with Google's Gemini CLI.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 13mo ago

Async Agents: Signal Over Noise

Jessie Frazelle shares her hands-on experience evaluating async AI agents in production, highlighting common pitfalls and which stood out for its precision and restraint.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 14mo ago

Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding

This investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 14mo ago

Zed for Windows: What's Taking So Long?!

An update on what the Zed for Windows team has been doing in July and August.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 14mo ago

Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software

Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 14mo ago

The Death of the IDE?

Steve Yegge and Nathan Sobo debate whether IDEs are obsolete in the AI era. Their opposing perspectives reveal surprising common ground.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 14mo ago

Container Use for Locally Sandboxed, Background Agents in Zed

Run AI agents in parallel without interference using containerized environments and Git Worktrees.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 14mo ago

You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed

If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 15mo ago

Why I'm Dialing Back My LLM Usage

Alberto Fortin shares his honest reflection on the reality of using LLMs in production code and why he's taking a more measured approach.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 15mo ago

Leveling Up Agents with MCPs

Kent Dodds provides a thorough overview of MCP (Model Context Protocol) and how it is changing the way we interact with software.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 16mo ago

Agentic Engineering in Action

Mitchell Hashimoto walked Richard Feldman through his approach to using AI when building Ghostty.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 16mo ago

The Debugger is Here

Over 2,000 developers asked, and we delivered. Debugging in Zed is now a reality—and it's a big leap toward Zed 1.0.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 16mo ago

The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes

Working toward genuine, quality software in an era where code production is not the constraint anymore.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 17mo ago

Zed: The Fastest AI Code Editor

Zed is now the world's fastest AI code editor. What's more, Zed's new AI features are also open-source, just like the whole editor.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 19mo ago

Out-of-your-face AI

Making Zed's edit predictions appear only when holding a modifier key, instead of as you type.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 19mo ago

Native Git support in Zed

You can now stage, commit, pull, push, and more, all natively within Zed.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 20mo ago

Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model

A tool that predicts your next move. Powered by Zeta, our new open-source, open-data language model.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 20mo ago

Add some color to your life, with icon themes

You can now use icon themes to change the way folder and file icons look in Zed

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Zed Editor dev-tools 20mo ago

How is DeepSeek-R1 for Coding? Try it right now!

How to try DeepSeek-R1 for coding via the Zed code editor's out-the-box support.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 21mo ago

Vim Roadmap 2025

What's next for Vim mode in Zed?

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Zed Editor dev-tools 22mo ago

The Context Outside the Code

How you can quickly add external context to language model conversations with Zed extensions built using the new Model Context Protocol.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 23mo ago

Rope Optimizations, Part 1

In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio walk through the performance optimizations Antonio when working on Zed's Rope data structure before they then pair on adding more optimizations

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Zed Editor dev-tools 23mo ago

macOS Keyboard Shortcut Localization

How macOS shortcuts work on different layouts.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 23mo ago

SSH Remoting is Here!

Zed can now be used to edit over SSH.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 24mo ago

Life of a Zed Extension: Rust, WIT, Wasm

In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Max and Marshall, who have built Zed's extension system, asking them to explain to him: what happens when I install an extension? How does it all work?

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Zed Editor dev-tools 24mo ago

Zed AI: Introducing Usage-Based Billing for High-Volume Users

Some billing-related changes for Zed's AI offering

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Zed Editor dev-tools 26mo ago

Introducing Zed AI

Powerful AI-assisted coding powered by Anthropic's Claude, now available.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 27mo ago

Bringing Interactive Computing to Zed: Introducing REPL Support

Run code, visualize data, and iterate right in your editor with Zed's new REPL support.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 27mo ago

Linux when? Linux now

We've stabilized our Linux build, download it today!

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Zed Editor dev-tools 28mo ago

Text Coordinate Systems

In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks Nathan and Antonio about the text coordinate systems in Zed's codebase, from rows and columns to offsets to display points to anchors.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 28mo ago

Why not just embed Neovim?

In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks Conrad about Zed's Vim mode and asks him: why not just embed Neovim?

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Zed Editor dev-tools 29mo ago

Syntax-Aware Task Spawning With Tree-Sitter

In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Piotr and Kirill, who have spent the last few months building Tasks, a collection of features in Zed that allow you to execute code.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 29mo ago

Linux when?

In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten talks to Mikayla, who's been leading the effort to Zed working on Linux, about the Zed's Linux version and how it's taking shape

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Zed Editor dev-tools 29mo ago

Fixing the Git Blame Beachball

Debugging a severe performance problem with our new git blame feature.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 29mo ago

Text Manipulation Kung Fu for the Aspiring Black Belt

Learn the basics of text manipulation in Zed via a series of guided exercises.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 30mo ago

Rope & SumTree

In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten asks the founders — Nathan, Max, Antonio — about the data structures at the heart of Zed: Rope and SumTree.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 30mo ago

Extensible Language Support in Zed - Part 1

About two months ago, @maxdeviant and I began the project of making Zed extensible. In a code editor, extensibility can include many features that require many different capabilities, but for the first phase of the project, we have focused on extensible language support . We…

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Zed Editor dev-tools 30mo ago

Async Rust

In this episode of Zed Decoded, Thorsten and Antonio explore how we use async Rust in the Zed code base to ensure perfect cooperation with macOS to always maintain responsiveness and high-performance.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 31mo ago

Building a Text Editor in the Times of AI

Thorsten interviews co-founders Nathan, Max, Antonio about their path to AI, how they use it, how it's implemented in AI, what will change about it, and what that could mean for the future of programming.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 31mo ago

Between Editors and IDEs, Where Zed Falls

Thorsten interviews co-founders Nathan, Max, Antonio about the product philosophy behind Zed and how they think about text editing along multiple axes: Emacs vs. Vim, IDE vs. Editor, Batteries included vs. Extensibility.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 32mo ago

The Full Spectrum of Collaboration

Thorsten interviews co-founders Nathan, Max, Antonio about their thoughts on collaboration in software teams, in general and in relation to the collaboration features that Zed offers.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 32mo ago

We Have to Start Over: From Atom to Zed

Thorsten interviews co-founders Nathan, Max, Antonio about the vision and the technological choices behind Zed, how they went from Atom and Electron to Rust and GPUs with Zed.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 32mo ago

Optimizing the Metal pipeline to maintain 120 FPS in GPUI

Zed feels smoother than ever with today's release of 0.121, thanks to a series of optimizations that began on the kitchen table of popular streamer Theo Browne . In an excellent video following our open source launch, Theo gave a bunch of great feedback, but what really…

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Zed Editor dev-tools 32mo ago

User themes now in Preview

Theme Zed just how you like it in the latest Preview release.

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Zed Editor dev-tools 33mo ago

Ownership and data flow in GPUI

Note: This blog post was originally written for an old version of GPUI. It has been updated to reflect the current GPUI APIs, as of 12/12/25. One of the challenges we initially faced building Zed's user interface was Rust's strict ownership system. In Rust, every…

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