{"slug": "zed", "name": "Zed", "category": "editors", "category_name": "Editors and IDEs", "description": "Fast, Rust-built open-source code editor with built-in AI agent and collaboration features.", "recommenders": 123, "commenters": 195, "warners": 16, "score": 108.169, "rising": 7.55, "first": "2025-11-04", "latest": "2026-10-26", "why": "Loved as a fast, native editor that runs Claude Code, Codex and other agents through ACP in one UI, often replacing VS Code or Cursor.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 128, "neutral": 57, "compare": 17, "warn": 19}, "spark": [4, 4, 14, 4, 2, 33, 10, 12, 6, 26, 7, 6], "listed": true, "loved": ["Agent integration", "Speed"], "caveat": "AI over editor", "short_quote": "Zed is written in Rust, insanely fast, consumes virtually no resources, has an Emacs input mode (which I use exclusively)", "icon": true, "domain": "zed.dev", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://zed.dev", "pricing": "freemium", "aliases": ["Zed"], "verdict": [{"text": "Loved as a fast, native editor", "cites": [{"id": 799870176, "item_id": 49991886, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991886", "by": "railka", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out Zed IDE - it's exactly what JetBrains Fleet should've been. Native, fast, and built for \"code by hand\"", "excerpt": "Check out Zed IDE - it's exactly what JetBrains Fleet should've been. Native, fast, and built for \"code by hand\", but also with some AI features.", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 790114608, "item_id": 49382163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382163", "by": "john01dav", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Zed lately and quite liking it.", "excerpt": "I have been using Zed lately and quite liking it. I used Jetbrains for years, but it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it. I have also used vscode and I need to use it at work, and it's fine, but I prefer Zed (fewer bugs, faster, mainly).", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "JetBrains", "story": "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"}, {"id": 786197201, "item_id": 49137325, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137325", "by": "RussianCow", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "These days I've switched to Zed, which is good enough (and wicked fast)", "excerpt": "They're not as good. I've tried all the options available a couple months ago, and none of them feel nearly as polished as Cursor. For one thing, Cursor Tab is just far better than any other \"next edit\" prediction I've used. I also happen to like their agent UI the most, but they don't support ACP, so you can't use it with Claude Code, which was a deal-breaker for me. These days I've switched to Zed, which is good en", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"}]}, {"text": " that runs Claude Code, Codex and other agents through ACP in one UI, often replacing VS Code or Cursor.", "cites": [{"id": 786192640, "item_id": 49137040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137040", "by": "teaearlgraycold", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Zed lets you use Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. all through the same UI", "excerpt": "Zed lets you use Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. all through the same UI. Like you, I use that to cross validate using models from different providers and switch over to GLM 5.2 when I exceed my Claude Code limit.", "context": "", "use_case": "running multiple coding agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"}, {"id": 787022336, "item_id": 49188896, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188896", "by": "DangitBobby", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ACP integration is very good, IMO. I'm using it with Claude Code.", "excerpt": "ACP integration is very good, IMO. I'm using it with Claude Code. They've made so many improvements over time. I use image pasting myself, TBH I was excited it worked at all. Surprised that some rough edges around images are enough to ruin the whole thing for you.", "context": "", "use_case": "editor with agent integration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 788399392, "item_id": 49274962, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274962", "by": "calldacopsidgaf", "date": "2026-08-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to Zed a few weeks ago and out-of-the-box it does everything Cursor can without charging you their dumbass premium.", "excerpt": "Literal trash for nazis. By the way if you're looking to get off of Cursor since X.ai bought them, I switched to Zed a few weeks ago and out-of-the-box it does everything Cursor can without charging you their dumbass premium. The transition is pretty much seamless", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "Grok 4.6"}, {"id": 792513984, "item_id": 49532124, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532124", "by": "jotato", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vscode on my m2 Mac routinely crashed when doing file search. That is why I switched to zed.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m trying to phrase this to not be \u201cthat guy\u201d but have you used Code on large code bases? Vscode on my m2 Mac routinely crashed when doing file search. That is why I switched to zed. I do miss the configurablity though", "context": "", "use_case": "large codebases", "switched_from": "VS Code", "story": "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaint is that the AI push is pulling focus from the core editor,", "cites": [{"id": 787140432, "item_id": 49196277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196277", "by": "aranw", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "ever since Zed AI I've felt more and more frustrated with Zed and it's quality is starting to lack?", "excerpt": "When I saw the blog post about DeltaDB I thought oh okay cool but so what I don't really know what this is for me and how it helps me or what it does for me. Then again today I saw this link and looked at it and I can't help thing what is this to me? How does this help me, why would I want to request early access cause I have no idea what it does? I'd much prefer some more time spent building a solid editor which is ", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "VSCode", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787043056, "item_id": 49190191, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190191", "by": "sarreph", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Zed and I hope that it doesn\u2019t start to go flakey.", "excerpt": "A lot of the copy on this page feels like the kind of copy an AI would produce. But I\u2019m assuming, surely, Zed writes their own copy so I don\u2019t want to accuse them of doing that. Marketing aside, this is the kind of thing (advancements in VCSes) that I\u2019d usually be excited about, but which I\u2019m less excited about coming from Zed because it makes me start to worry that they\u2019re going to continue focussing less on the cor", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 791786080, "item_id": 49486630, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486630", "by": "flippant", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It\u2019s a good editor, but the AI features are forgettable", "excerpt": "No big deal, I pay for zed plus/pro/max, whatever the subscription is called. I don\u2019t miss any of the paid AI features when I switch laptops and can\u2019t be bothered to login. It\u2019s a good editor, but the AI features are forgettable, and probably a distraction away from the core value proposition. They should sell commercial licenses like IntelliJ and be done with this AI monetization dilemma.", "context": "paying subscriber", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed: Edit predictions are leaving the free Personal plan on October 7"}]}, {"text": " alongside reports of stale file state and Linux-specific bugs.", "cites": [{"id": 796073328, "item_id": 49754583, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754583", "by": "the__alchemist", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Zed editor, is unusable for me and others due to it mismanaging file syncs on disk", "excerpt": "I've lost faith in their editor and GPUI - you were the one, Zed! They are full-steam AI on things like this. I expected this article to be about a general alternative to git, but it is about LLM-focused coding in a way that doesn't make sense to me, as it slices a line between human-written and LLM-written code which does not exist in a meaningful way. Their primary product, the Zed editor, is unusable for me and ot", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"}, {"id": 787024224, "item_id": 49189014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189014", "by": "umvi", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Don't crash my entire PC when there's a large (100+ MB) JSON file in the working directory", "excerpt": "Hmm, yeah before \"DeltaDB\" I have a big list of things I would rather they develop/fix: - Vertical activity bar (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58868#issuecomment-4871602351 - rejected because it \"doesn\u2019t match our design vision for Zed\") This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views. - Don't crash my entire PC when there's a large (100+ MB) JSON file", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787146784, "item_id": 49196674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196674", "by": "yza", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "there have been at least 3 issues before this one", "excerpt": "lucky you, but here's the issue (note: there have been at least 3 issues before this one) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/58651 crossing fingers it's solved for real now. i only use wayland on my laptop where it seems to be fixed, my go-to machine is with Xorg where there's no copy-paste problems", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "code editor on Wayland", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "Agent integration", "summary": "Commenters like running Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and other agents side by side through ACP in one editor UI.", "quotes": [{"id": 786192640, "item_id": 49137040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137040", "by": "teaearlgraycold", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Zed lets you use Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. all through the same UI", "excerpt": "Zed lets you use Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. all through the same UI. Like you, I use that to cross validate using models from different providers and switch over to GLM 5.2 when I exceed my Claude Code limit.", "context": "", "use_case": "running multiple coding agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"}, {"id": 787022336, "item_id": 49188896, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188896", "by": "DangitBobby", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ACP integration is very good, IMO. I'm using it with Claude Code.", "excerpt": "ACP integration is very good, IMO. I'm using it with Claude Code. They've made so many improvements over time. I use image pasting myself, TBH I was excited it worked at all. Surprised that some rough edges around images are enough to ruin the whole thing for you.", "context": "", "use_case": "editor with agent integration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 779874864, "item_id": 48742179, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742179", "by": "Abishek_Muthian", "date": "2026-06-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Juggling between all different models/agents is quite simple with Zed.", "excerpt": "I'm a senior skilled developer and I find Anthropic $20 + Open AI $20 + OpenCode Go $10 offers more value than $100 on any particular service. Juggling between all different models/agents is quite simple with Zed. A caution about OpenCode Go though, the entire company seems to be run by AI so there's lot of billing related issues with zero support. I subscribe new every month as I lost money due to double payment wit", "context": "senior skilled developer", "use_case": "switching between AI models", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Sonnet 5"}]}, {"label": "Speed", "summary": "Described as native and fast, with fewer bugs than JetBrains or VS Code.", "quotes": [{"id": 799870176, "item_id": 49991886, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991886", "by": "railka", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out Zed IDE - it's exactly what JetBrains Fleet should've been. Native, fast, and built for \"code by hand\"", "excerpt": "Check out Zed IDE - it's exactly what JetBrains Fleet should've been. Native, fast, and built for \"code by hand\", but also with some AI features.", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 790114608, "item_id": 49382163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382163", "by": "john01dav", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Zed lately and quite liking it.", "excerpt": "I have been using Zed lately and quite liking it. I used Jetbrains for years, but it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it. I have also used vscode and I need to use it at work, and it's fine, but I prefer Zed (fewer bugs, faster, mainly).", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "JetBrains", "story": "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"}, {"id": 786197201, "item_id": 49137325, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137325", "by": "RussianCow", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "These days I've switched to Zed, which is good enough (and wicked fast)", "excerpt": "They're not as good. I've tried all the options available a couple months ago, and none of them feel nearly as polished as Cursor. For one thing, Cursor Tab is just far better than any other \"next edit\" prediction I've used. I also happen to like their agent UI the most, but they don't support ACP, so you can't use it with Claude Code, which was a deal-breaker for me. These days I've switched to Zed, which is good en", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"}]}, {"label": "Daily driver", "summary": "Several long-term users report using it daily with few problems.", "quotes": [{"id": 787209856, "item_id": 49200616, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200616", "by": "manlymuppet", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Zed is my daily driver and I'm pretty happy with it.", "excerpt": "I'm on macOS, but the core editor is far from unusable. I think it's unfair to call it that. Zed is my daily driver and I'm pretty happy with it. I often switch over to other editors to do things Zed can't, but it's rarer than you'd think and really isn't that much of a hassle.", "context": "macOS user", "use_case": "daily code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787035168, "item_id": 49189698, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189698", "by": "whalesalad", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Zed for about a year now on Debian 12 / Wayland and it works flawlessly.", "excerpt": "I have been using Zed for about a year now on Debian 12 / Wayland and it works flawlessly. Even with Toshy (macOS) keybindings. I have it installed now on my Framework 13 Pro (also Fedora 44, and also with Toshy) and it works great aside from a subtle (100ms?) lag when using ctrl+arrow-key. Otherwise it is great. The only thing that doesn't work well is inertial scrolling[0]. But scrolling is a fucking shit show on L", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787258784, "item_id": 49203674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203674", "by": "andreashaerter", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Using Zed as daily driver since ~4 Months, never had such problems.", "excerpt": "Can't relate (Fedora 44 GNOME with Wayland, AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO w/ Radeon 860M), binary install (no Flatpak). Using Zed as daily driver since ~4 Months, never had such problems. Completely ditched VS Code and never looked back. Maybe some Ubuntu-specific issue?", "context": "Fedora GNOME on Wayland user", "use_case": "daily code editor", "switched_from": "VS Code", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}]}, {"label": "Remote over SSH", "summary": "Can edit and run agents on a VM or remote box over SSH.", "quotes": [{"id": 791640530, "item_id": 49477533, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477533", "by": "api", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Zed, as an IDE, can connect to a VM via ssh and both edit and run things like Claude or its built-in agentic harness", "excerpt": "I run these things in VMs, and as a user in the VM, and give them access to just the tree I want to work on via mounting. I use Parallels on macOS for this but any VM will do. That way my actual primary machine is at least strongly isolated. I also run them on VMs on my home Proxmox box. Zed, as an IDE, can connect to a VM via ssh and both edit and run things like Claude or its built-in agentic harness on your code w", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE connecting to VM", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Agent Has Root"}, {"id": 791643299, "item_id": 49477706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477706", "by": "vollbrecht", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In my case i use zed and connect into the vm.", "excerpt": "step 1) create a Dockerfile with claude-code / pi.dev + acp_agents + whatever dev env you need. step 2) use microsandbox to create a fs image from that Dockerfile image. ( All secrets you need inside the vm live only on the host and are injected in the tcp stream on egress) step 3) microsandbox by default speak ssh without you needing to have a ssh server in the vm. You can proxy forward everything through it if you ", "context": "", "use_case": "editor connecting to sandbox VM", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Agent Has Root"}, {"id": 779541200, "item_id": 48721325, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721325", "by": "whinvik", "date": "2026-06-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I finally switched to Zed + Terminal Thread + Tmux.", "excerpt": "I finally switched to Zed + Terminal Thread + Tmux. The terminal agent threads allow me to run in multiple projects. They always run in a project scoped tmux session so they are always on. And of course Zed does remote via ssh so the agents can run without me needing to keep my laptop on.", "context": "", "use_case": "running coding agents in projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"}]}, {"label": "Open standards", "summary": "Praised for building on LSP, ACP, DAP and tree-sitter so it fits many workflows.", "quotes": [{"id": 787048656, "item_id": 49190541, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190541", "by": "stusmall", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Its just good engineering and I love to see it.", "excerpt": "Even more than supporting any agent that support almost anything period. They seem to take the default approach of using open community standards first when adding new features. By investing very heavily in LSP, ACP, DAP, tree-sitter etc it makes it easy for Zed to integrate with tons of different workflows, language, ecosystems etc quickly and easily. Its just good engineering and I love to see it.", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor with open standards", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}]}, {"label": "Large files", "summary": "Handles giant log files that VS Code struggles with.", "quotes": [{"id": 796664209, "item_id": 49791513, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791513", "by": "blacksmith_tb", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have mostly switched to Zed for those giant-file-don't-need-any-bells-and-whistles tasks.", "excerpt": "Different horses for different courses? I wouldn't open a 100MB logfile in VS Code, but ST or Zed handle that fine. I use all three, though my ST license was for a version or two back, so I have mostly switched to Zed for those giant-file-don't-need-any-bells-and-whistles tasks.", "context": "", "use_case": "giant files", "switched_from": "Sublime Text", "story": "Sublime Text Build 4213"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "AI over editor", "summary": "Some users worry the AI focus is distracting from the core editor experience.", "quotes": [{"id": 787140432, "item_id": 49196277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196277", "by": "aranw", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "ever since Zed AI I've felt more and more frustrated with Zed and it's quality is starting to lack?", "excerpt": "When I saw the blog post about DeltaDB I thought oh okay cool but so what I don't really know what this is for me and how it helps me or what it does for me. Then again today I saw this link and looked at it and I can't help thing what is this to me? How does this help me, why would I want to request early access cause I have no idea what it does? I'd much prefer some more time spent building a solid editor which is ", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "VSCode", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787043056, "item_id": 49190191, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190191", "by": "sarreph", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Zed and I hope that it doesn\u2019t start to go flakey.", "excerpt": "A lot of the copy on this page feels like the kind of copy an AI would produce. But I\u2019m assuming, surely, Zed writes their own copy so I don\u2019t want to accuse them of doing that. Marketing aside, this is the kind of thing (advancements in VCSes) that I\u2019d usually be excited about, but which I\u2019m less excited about coming from Zed because it makes me start to worry that they\u2019re going to continue focussing less on the cor", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 791786080, "item_id": 49486630, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486630", "by": "flippant", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It\u2019s a good editor, but the AI features are forgettable", "excerpt": "No big deal, I pay for zed plus/pro/max, whatever the subscription is called. I don\u2019t miss any of the paid AI features when I switch laptops and can\u2019t be bothered to login. It\u2019s a good editor, but the AI features are forgettable, and probably a distraction away from the core value proposition. They should sell commercial licenses like IntelliJ and be done with this AI monetization dilemma.", "context": "paying subscriber", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed: Edit predictions are leaving the free Personal plan on October 7"}]}, {"label": "Linux bugs", "summary": "Linux users report copy-paste issues, freezes after suspend and crashes with large JSON files.", "quotes": [{"id": 787024224, "item_id": 49189014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189014", "by": "umvi", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Don't crash my entire PC when there's a large (100+ MB) JSON file in the working directory", "excerpt": "Hmm, yeah before \"DeltaDB\" I have a big list of things I would rather they develop/fix: - Vertical activity bar (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58868#issuecomment-4871602351 - rejected because it \"doesn\u2019t match our design vision for Zed\") This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views. - Don't crash my entire PC when there's a large (100+ MB) JSON file", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787146784, "item_id": 49196674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196674", "by": "yza", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "there have been at least 3 issues before this one", "excerpt": "lucky you, but here's the issue (note: there have been at least 3 issues before this one) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/58651 crossing fingers it's solved for real now. i only use wayland on my laptop where it seems to be fixed, my go-to machine is with Xorg where there's no copy-paste problems", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "code editor on Wayland", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787035168, "item_id": 49189698, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189698", "by": "whalesalad", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Zed for about a year now on Debian 12 / Wayland and it works flawlessly.", "excerpt": "I have been using Zed for about a year now on Debian 12 / Wayland and it works flawlessly. Even with Toshy (macOS) keybindings. I have it installed now on my Framework 13 Pro (also Fedora 44, and also with Toshy) and it works great aside from a subtle (100ms?) lag when using ctrl+arrow-key. Otherwise it is great. The only thing that doesn't work well is inertial scrolling[0]. But scrolling is a fucking shit show on L", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}]}, {"label": "Agent glitches", "summary": "Reports include ACP issues with some agents, an agent editing without permission and broken LLM access in Asia.", "quotes": [{"id": 791814576, "item_id": 49488411, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49488411", "by": "imtringued", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Read Only drop-down disappeared and while I was doing my code review the AI agent started vibe coding without my permission", "excerpt": "I used zed with codex for the accept / reject code review feature without relying on git but yesterday the Read Only drop-down disappeared and while I was doing my code review the AI agent started vibe coding without my permission. I hate this industry.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"}, {"id": 787031472, "item_id": 49189467, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189467", "by": "tamimio", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using zed for almost 2ish years now, great overall", "excerpt": "I have been using zed for almost 2ish years now, great overall, but last month when I tried ACP with opencode and even omp, it gave me many issues that it was easier just to use the terminal directly, oh, and I couldn\u2019t select the model that time not sure if it\u2019s fixed now.", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 788520816, "item_id": 49282551, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282551", "by": "wraptile", "date": "2026-08-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Zed for still having completely broken LLM support in almost entire continent of Asia for over a year now", "excerpt": "I feel like I have to call out Zed for still having completely broken LLM support in almost entire continent of Asia for over a year now with no official response\u00b9 just because they can't route http requests. Bad look for their LLM workflow push. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/29962", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor with LLM", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed: Delta"}]}, {"label": "File syncing", "summary": "Some users report stale state after external edits and heavy load on network shares.", "quotes": [{"id": 796073328, "item_id": 49754583, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754583", "by": "the__alchemist", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Zed editor, is unusable for me and others due to it mismanaging file syncs on disk", "excerpt": "I've lost faith in their editor and GPUI - you were the one, Zed! They are full-steam AI on things like this. I expected this article to be about a general alternative to git, but it is about LLM-focused coding in a way that doesn't make sense to me, as it slices a line between human-written and LLM-written code which does not exist in a meaningful way. Their primary product, the Zed editor, is unusable for me and ot", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"}, {"id": 796077712, "item_id": 49754857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754857", "by": "nepthar", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I\u2019ve been meaning to check out zed but that\u2019s a huge problem.", "excerpt": "Woah. I\u2019ve been meaning to check out zed but that\u2019s a huge problem. I\u2019ve fixed this problem before in rust, there\u2019s just a library you can use to update file trees with a combination of batching fs notifications and a periodic rescan. Wtf guys! Maybe I\u2019ll submit a PR\u2026 oh wait! I mean delta. :(", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"}, {"id": 790122593, "item_id": 49382662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382662", "by": "katbyte", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I recently tried zed but it ddos\u2019d my nas over an smb share lol", "excerpt": "I use jetbrains editors, but mostly goland which might be more stable then others I recently tried zed but it ddos\u2019d my nas over an smb share lol", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"}]}, {"label": "Missing features", "summary": "Users miss line prediction, stronger AI review, more configurability, and better settings and LSP handling.", "quotes": [{"id": 784332098, "item_id": 49020756, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020756", "by": "c16", "date": "2026-07-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "So I've switched to zed.dev and use Claude there.", "excerpt": "I've been using Goland/IntelliJ since I graduated. Been paying for it for years. But the resource hog and I guess focus on writing a mediocre AI side panel really killed it for me. The main improvements lately were: - line/function prediction - Claude Code plugin And I can use Claude Code in any terminal. So I've switched to zed.dev and use Claude there. Wish it had the line prediction though.", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "IntelliJ IDEA", "story": "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"}, {"id": 797939380, "item_id": 49871211, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871211", "by": "apatheticonion", "date": "2026-09-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Zed editor but its AI review features are lacking compared to VSCode.", "excerpt": "Guide coding is more forgiving because the diffs are small enough that you can just try something and veto it if it's not good. Qwen 3.6 a3b makes more mistakes than DeepSeek but it's free. I'd imagine the next ~32gb-vram-class MoE model from Qwen will close the gap. The real deciding factor for me is inference speed. I use VSCode insiders with their BYO model configuration. I stage little bits at a time in a tight p", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"}, {"id": 787014096, "item_id": 49188381, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188381", "by": "ibejoeb", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using it for years now and I really like it", "excerpt": "I agree with you that I wish they'd just nail the editor. I've been using it for years now and I really like it, but there are a few rough parts (settings and LSPs especially) that could probably be tuned up in no time if the focus was there. Having said that, I love the idea of correlating the agent sessions to the changes. I'm glad someone is working on it.", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}]}, {"label": "GPU usage", "summary": "One user says it redraws constantly, causing high GPU usage on a still screen.", "quotes": [{"id": 797468656, "item_id": 49841791, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841791", "by": "nh2", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Zed editor, which spams screen redraws even when nothing changes at all, so it has high GPU usage for still picture", "excerpt": "I don't think so. This is just what happens when you redraw the screen. Doing it 30x more frequent than needed costs more, no matter if it's only 1 pixel. This problem is not isolated to me or to just one machine. Check out the chromium bug about the tab loading spinner, for example. It is a \"simple\" spinner as well. 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But I have a version that I use", "excerpt": "I have added Jupyter support and Panning/Zooming for Zed, waiting for them to merge. But I have a version that I use, you can build it if ya want! The PRs: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/43553, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/43944 My-Zed branch with both the features: https://github.com/MostlyKIGuess/zed/tree/my-zed", "context": "contributor to Zed", "use_case": "code editing with Jupyter support", "switched_from": "", "story": "I switched from VSCode to Zed"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949027", "title": "Zed is 1.0", "mentions": 36}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49187256", "title": "Zed DeltaDB", "mentions": 21}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498735", "title": "I switched from VSCode to Zed", "mentions": 19}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916196", "title": "Zed is our office", "mentions": 9}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492533", "title": "Software Is Made Between Commits", "mentions": 7}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49276574", "title": "Zed: Delta", "mentions": 6}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 6, "recommend": 4, "compare": 1, "warn": 2}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 4, "recommend": 4}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 14, "neutral": 2, "warn": 3, "compare": 3}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 33, "compare": 5, "neutral": 10, "warn": 2}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 10, "neutral": 2, "warn": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 12, "neutral": 10, "compare": 3}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 6, "recommend": 6}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 9, "recommend": 26, "warn": 6, "compare": 2}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 7, "neutral": 5, "warn": 3, "compare": 2}, "2026-10": {"neutral": 2, "recommend": 6}}, "quotes": [{"id": 804007537, "item_id": 50250471, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50250471", "by": "yoz", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Zed's Delta (which is a very nice design)", "excerpt": "Do you have any recommendations for starting points with the bb ecosystem? As in, good existing components or practices? I've been using it on and off for a while, but never got around to doing any major customisation mainly because I hate reinventing wheels (and also I was busy with other things). But I now am looking for something like a cross between Warp and Zed's Delta (which is a very nice design), and bb might", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pharo 14"}, {"id": 803858528, "item_id": 50241158, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50241158", "by": "nicce", "date": "2026-10-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Eventually I switched to Zed since that was better.", "excerpt": "I even forgot that it exist. I tried it many times but it was not good enough. Eventually I switched to Zed since that was better. Probably Zed killed it.", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "Fleet", "story": "JetBrains Thinkrail"}, {"id": 803793584, "item_id": 50237099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237099", "by": "minimaxir", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used Zed Agent with Codex as it has native integration with Zed's ACP so it's pretty convenient.", "excerpt": "For me, I used Zed Agent with Codex as it has native integration with Zed's ACP so it's pretty convenient. However, Anthropic is pickier about the harnesses you can use with Claude Code and I noticed discrepancies when using Zed's External Agent feature with Claude Code, so I just use the Claude app. It's fine.", "context": "", "use_case": "agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"}, {"id": 803669395, "item_id": 50229337, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229337", "by": "apatheticonion", "date": "2026-10-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "am using the UI framework used by the Zed editor.", "excerpt": "Agreed. I started writing a desktop GUI harness in Rust using native desktop GUI APIs. Claude, Codex, Opencode, everything is Electron. With agents and solid engineering fundamentals, I set out to prove that we don't need to take that shortcut any more and we can, in fact, ship high quality/performance applications. It's still early days - but I got something basic working. I've embedded the Goose harness as a back e", "context": "", "use_case": "UI framework", "switched_from": "", "story": "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"}, {"id": 803518688, "item_id": 50219918, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219918", "by": "faangguyindia", "date": "2026-10-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "due to agentic stuff, I moved to zed", "excerpt": "Never used JetBrains products, but always used vi; after that, VS Code for its extensions. But due to agentic stuff, I moved to zed.", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic coding", "switched_from": "VS Code", "story": "ThinkRail from JetBrains"}, {"id": 799870176, "item_id": 49991886, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49991886", "by": "railka", "date": "2026-10-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out Zed IDE - it's exactly what JetBrains Fleet should've been. Native, fast, and built for \"code by hand\"", "excerpt": "Check out Zed IDE - it's exactly what JetBrains Fleet should've been. Native, fast, and built for \"code by hand\", but also with some AI features.", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 798888849, "item_id": 49930553, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930553", "by": "Imustaskforhelp", "date": "2026-10-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "support remote development similar to zed[0] using ssh", "excerpt": "This is amazing. I think that the binary itself is just 980kb, which is such a fresh breath of air. I think that I am fairly impressed by the project! Some few features that I would love to have for myself is if it can support remote development similar to zed[0] using ssh and if possibly, LSP support can be added. I also think that this project can be used as the base support for many things and not just an editor a", "context": "", "use_case": "remote development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Rhun, an open-source code editor written in assembly"}, {"id": 798838434, "item_id": 49927402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927402", "by": "girvo", "date": "2026-10-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Pi in the terminal and with Zed", "excerpt": "I use Pi in the terminal and with Zed (with its \"right hand side\" terminal bar you can make its agent panel do), and I use it with Pendant in VSCode at home: Pendant is really quite impressive, I'll be honest.", "context": "", "use_case": "editor with agent panel", "switched_from": "", "story": "Pi 1.0"}, {"id": 798554178, "item_id": 49909636, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909636", "by": "everforward", "date": "2026-09-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "My thinking level selector in Zed has never worked with it", "excerpt": "I\u2019m not sure; the integrated GUI seems like a major differentiator for them. Pi\u2019s agent is supposed to be simple, and a simple ACP agent is like a couple hundred lines of code. Making a system that allows UI plugins is way harder. Also not sure if you\u2019ve seen but you can get ACP from Pi with https://github.com/svkozak/pi-acp It bridges Pi\u2019s RPC mode to ACP, works okay but not amazingly. My thinking level selector in ", "context": "", "use_case": "editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "You said no MCP"}, {"id": 797939380, "item_id": 49871211, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49871211", "by": "apatheticonion", "date": "2026-09-27", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Zed editor but its AI review features are lacking compared to VSCode.", "excerpt": "Guide coding is more forgiving because the diffs are small enough that you can just try something and veto it if it's not good. Qwen 3.6 a3b makes more mistakes than DeepSeek but it's free. I'd imagine the next ~32gb-vram-class MoE model from Qwen will close the gap. The real deciding factor for me is inference speed. I use VSCode insiders with their BYO model configuration. I stage little bits at a time in a tight p", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"}, {"id": 797468656, "item_id": 49841791, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841791", "by": "nh2", "date": "2026-09-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Zed editor, which spams screen redraws even when nothing changes at all, so it has high GPU usage for still picture", "excerpt": "I don't think so. This is just what happens when you redraw the screen. Doing it 30x more frequent than needed costs more, no matter if it's only 1 pixel. This problem is not isolated to me or to just one machine. Check out the chromium bug about the tab loading spinner, for example. It is a \"simple\" spinner as well. Or the Zed editor, which spams screen redraws even when nothing changes at all, so it has high GPU us", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners"}, {"id": 797043545, "item_id": 49815221, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49815221", "by": "abalashov", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I also use Kimi K3 in Zed via OpenRouter quite a bit", "excerpt": "Data points from my own usage, for whatever they're worth[1]. I'm just an individual contributor and hardly represent enterprise or large orgs: I've been on Kimi, with a little DeepSeek-V4-Pro, GLM 5.2/5.3, and MiMo thrown in, for probably about a year now. It's great here! 1) For DeepSeek, I recommend their Reasonix harness strongly, due to its alignment to DeepSeek's prefix cache. It means mostly (95%+) cache hit i", "context": "individual contributor", "use_case": "coding with Kimi", "switched_from": "", "story": "The current balance of power in open models"}, {"id": 796953687, "item_id": 49809605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49809605", "by": "abalashov", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I also use Kimi K3 in Zed via OpenRouter quite a bit", "excerpt": "Welcome to the dark side. I've been on Kimi, with a little DeepSeek-V4-Pro, GLM 5.2/5.3, and MiMo thrown in, for probably about a year now. It's great here! For DeepSeek, I recommend their Reasonix harness strongly, due to its alignment to DeepSeek's prefix cache. It means mostly (95%+) cache hit input tokens, so very cheap large-scale code analyses and things that require mega context windows (at the cost of some at", "context": "", "use_case": "editor with Kimi K3", "switched_from": "", "story": "MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"}, {"id": 796839987, "item_id": 49802499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802499", "by": "saghm", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "so that I could run agents in it via Zed", "excerpt": "This is super interesting to me. I've slowly been working on something similar (https://gitlab.com/saghm/tartarus) because my ideal sandboxing is \"prevent writing to anything outside this dir but still allow reading to most things so that I don't have to manually copy things into a container/VM\". I approached it by trying to figure out how to build up a bubblewrap based on a config that gave the properties I wanted, ", "context": "", "use_case": "running agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Drop \u2013 A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support"}, {"id": 796737169, "item_id": 49796073, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796073", "by": "ben-schaaf", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "compare", "quote": "From a quick test we use a similar amount of memory to Zed.", "excerpt": "We put a fair amount of effort into reducing our resource footprint, so I'm curious what you find lacking in our memory management. From a quick test we use a similar amount of memory to Zed.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sublime Text Build 4213"}, {"id": 796664209, "item_id": 49791513, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49791513", "by": "blacksmith_tb", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have mostly switched to Zed for those giant-file-don't-need-any-bells-and-whistles tasks.", "excerpt": "Different horses for different courses? I wouldn't open a 100MB logfile in VS Code, but ST or Zed handle that fine. I use all three, though my ST license was for a version or two back, so I have mostly switched to Zed for those giant-file-don't-need-any-bells-and-whistles tasks.", "context": "", "use_case": "giant files", "switched_from": "Sublime Text", "story": "Sublime Text Build 4213"}, {"id": 796616817, "item_id": 49788551, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49788551", "by": "bpev", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I use both", "excerpt": "Don't have any metrics or anything, but I use both, and anecdotally, I feel like Sublime is snappier and gives me better battery life.", "context": "", "use_case": "text editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Sublime Text Build 4213"}, {"id": 796077712, "item_id": 49754857, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754857", "by": "nepthar", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I\u2019ve been meaning to check out zed but that\u2019s a huge problem.", "excerpt": "Woah. I\u2019ve been meaning to check out zed but that\u2019s a huge problem. I\u2019ve fixed this problem before in rust, there\u2019s just a library you can use to update file trees with a combination of batching fs notifications and a periodic rescan. Wtf guys! Maybe I\u2019ll submit a PR\u2026 oh wait! I mean delta. :(", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"}, {"id": 796073328, "item_id": 49754583, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754583", "by": "the__alchemist", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Zed editor, is unusable for me and others due to it mismanaging file syncs on disk", "excerpt": "I've lost faith in their editor and GPUI - you were the one, Zed! They are full-steam AI on things like this. I expected this article to be about a general alternative to git, but it is about LLM-focused coding in a way that doesn't make sense to me, as it slices a line between human-written and LLM-written code which does not exist in a meaningful way. Their primary product, the Zed editor, is unusable for me and ot", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"}, {"id": 796058192, "item_id": 49753637, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49753637", "by": "NoDodgeQuestion", "date": "2026-09-18", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Zed is fast and good at many things but need to focus on basic fix or agentic edits broken", "excerpt": "I must say again, can not manual refresh the file tree in zed https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/54150 Zed is fast and good at many things but need to focus on basic fix or agentic edits broken", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"}, {"id": 795926224, "item_id": 49745389, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745389", "by": "tensor", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Then I can just ask the zed agent to implement the issue and it works pretty well.", "excerpt": "Am I the only one using zed? Mostly I use it with Mistral but I also have deepseek in there. I find a good workflow is to store issues in markdown files and write thorough issue descriptions that reference relevant files. Then I can just ask the zed agent to implement the issue and it works pretty well.", "context": "", "use_case": "implementing issues with agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Share your AI Setup, Learn from others"}, {"id": 795458960, "item_id": 49716185, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716185", "by": "whalesalad", "date": "2026-09-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I am on Zed now, no more VSCode", "excerpt": "I am doing the opposite. I have been a Mac user since ~2005. My first Mac was actually a Quadra 610, but I was a wee little lad back then. I started my career on a G5 Power Mac with dual 23\" cinema displays (studio displays? can't remember what they were called back then). Then the intel Macbook/MBP, etc. I think my favorite mac of all time, or the one I look back most fondly on, was my 2012 Macbook Air. In 2022 my M", "context": "remote dev box workflow", "use_case": "remote coding over SSH", "switched_from": "VSCode", "story": "Leaving Linux"}, {"id": 795061648, "item_id": 49691353, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49691353", "by": "t2r3121", "date": "2026-09-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Zed (https://zed.dev) as my agent harness", "excerpt": "I use Zed (https://zed.dev) as my agent harness and either the $20 ChatGPT sub + Sol for personal/independent projects or an enterprise Claude account for sponsored/paid work. From the stats for my current work I use about $400/mo in tokens and a lot of that is non-coding work like pruning JIRA, managing business documentation, making dashboards - so my true coding agent cost is significantly less. It's pretty simple", "context": "", "use_case": "agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"}, {"id": 794604256, "item_id": 49662766, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662766", "by": "ramon156", "date": "2026-09-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Not because I dislike Zed, I'm just addicted to trying out IDEs", "excerpt": "Lovely write-up! Will take a look at rune as an alternative to my Zed setup. Not because I dislike Zed, I'm just addicted to trying out IDEs :)", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Rune is now open source"}, {"id": 793519680, "item_id": 49594980, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49594980", "by": "ramon156", "date": "2026-09-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I keep most of my sessions in Zed", "excerpt": "Disclaimer: I hand curate them in the end I keep most of my sessions in Zed (you can import them there anyway). After some big feature I let a frontier agent go over these sessions and suggest improvements. Typically I use gemini for this because it's really good at pruning text. Claude/GPT really wants to append more text for some reason. I end up with smaller skills but more \"actioned\" skills. They kind of force th", "context": "", "use_case": "agent sessions", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"}, {"id": 793257538, "item_id": 49578596, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578596", "by": "latchkey", "date": "2026-09-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the tooling getting better (ie: zed acp / omp)", "excerpt": "I'm addicted. This is the most fun I've had coding in decades. I feel like I've got superpowers and the limit is just how quickly I can prompt out my ideas. Those 500m are for coding. Started with $20 and now I'm on the $200/mo codex plan. Resets are crazy... free tokens, why not take advantage of all that VC money? Using omp helps a lot too, the fact that it uses an LSP under the covers is a game changer. I'm buildi", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding via ACP", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"}, {"id": 792513984, "item_id": 49532124, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532124", "by": "jotato", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Vscode on my m2 Mac routinely crashed when doing file search. That is why I switched to zed.", "excerpt": "I\u2019m trying to phrase this to not be \u201cthat guy\u201d but have you used Code on large code bases? Vscode on my m2 Mac routinely crashed when doing file search. That is why I switched to zed. I do miss the configurablity though", "context": "", "use_case": "large codebases", "switched_from": "VS Code", "story": "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"}, {"id": 791841072, "item_id": 49490067, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490067", "by": "bryanhogan", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Can highly recommend Zed as an alternative, it's better than VSCode with the Codex extension", "excerpt": "> We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts. I'm surprised how clear they are about this. Related: Can highly recommend Zed as an alternative, it's better than VSCode with the Codex extension as managing multiple chats is much nicer in Zed. Zed: https://zed.dev/", "context": "", "use_case": "managing multiple AI chats", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"}, {"id": 791814576, "item_id": 49488411, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49488411", "by": "imtringued", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Read Only drop-down disappeared and while I was doing my code review the AI agent started vibe coding without my permission", "excerpt": "I used zed with codex for the accept / reject code review feature without relying on git but yesterday the Read Only drop-down disappeared and while I was doing my code review the AI agent started vibe coding without my permission. I hate this industry.", "context": "", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"}, {"id": 791814530, "item_id": 49488408, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49488408", "by": "aws_ls", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Zed is the new Sublime Text if you will.", "excerpt": "I code using Codex or sometimes ClaudeCode. I use Zed to review the code. CLI is great for most things. Some times, when I am reviewing a PR, I just tell Codex to do a diff between source and target branches in PR, and generate a HTML report. Then I read that, and also review relevant pieces of code in Zed. I tried using Cursor, many of my colleagues use it, but stopped using it due to clunkiness. And of late, even i", "context": "", "use_case": "code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"}, {"id": 791802802, "item_id": 49487675, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487675", "by": "jackjeff", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I\u2019ve been wanting to use zed instead", "excerpt": "Is there some kind of alternative to Cursor in these terms - fast because the code is already indexed no need to start every prompt rediscovering the world with rg - in editor/vscode review much better than relying on git diff at the very end. You can click on next button to jump there. Quick edit in place. Or a quick prompt (seconds) to fix something small - in editor completion / quick edits, when you do things by ", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"}, {"id": 791786080, "item_id": 49486630, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486630", "by": "flippant", "date": "2026-08-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It\u2019s a good editor, but the AI features are forgettable", "excerpt": "No big deal, I pay for zed plus/pro/max, whatever the subscription is called. I don\u2019t miss any of the paid AI features when I switch laptops and can\u2019t be bothered to login. It\u2019s a good editor, but the AI features are forgettable, and probably a distraction away from the core value proposition. They should sell commercial licenses like IntelliJ and be done with this AI monetization dilemma.", "context": "paying subscriber", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed: Edit predictions are leaving the free Personal plan on October 7"}, {"id": 791643299, "item_id": 49477706, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477706", "by": "vollbrecht", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "In my case i use zed and connect into the vm.", "excerpt": "step 1) create a Dockerfile with claude-code / pi.dev + acp_agents + whatever dev env you need. step 2) use microsandbox to create a fs image from that Dockerfile image. ( All secrets you need inside the vm live only on the host and are injected in the tcp stream on egress) step 3) microsandbox by default speak ssh without you needing to have a ssh server in the vm. You can proxy forward everything through it if you ", "context": "", "use_case": "editor connecting to sandbox VM", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Agent Has Root"}, {"id": 791640530, "item_id": 49477533, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477533", "by": "api", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Zed, as an IDE, can connect to a VM via ssh and both edit and run things like Claude or its built-in agentic harness", "excerpt": "I run these things in VMs, and as a user in the VM, and give them access to just the tree I want to work on via mounting. I use Parallels on macOS for this but any VM will do. That way my actual primary machine is at least strongly isolated. I also run them on VMs on my home Proxmox box. Zed, as an IDE, can connect to a VM via ssh and both edit and run things like Claude or its built-in agentic harness on your code w", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE connecting to VM", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Agent Has Root"}, {"id": 790838208, "item_id": 49427388, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427388", "by": "larsfaye", "date": "2026-08-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Zed + OpenCode + Mimo/GLM/Kimi models are incredible.", "excerpt": "This is EXACTLY how I am working with these tools, you summarized everything about why I use this approach perfectly. Zed + OpenCode + Mimo/GLM/Kimi models are incredible. I haven't touched a \"frontier model\" for months. I really treat them as \"delegation layer\". They're systems that sit right alongside your stack, and at this point, at every level in it, like a connective tissue that intersects at all points. I can ", "context": "", "use_case": "guided AI coding", "switched_from": "", "story": "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"}, {"id": 790122593, "item_id": 49382662, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382662", "by": "katbyte", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I recently tried zed but it ddos\u2019d my nas over an smb share lol", "excerpt": "I use jetbrains editors, but mostly goland which might be more stable then others I recently tried zed but it ddos\u2019d my nas over an smb share lol", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"}, {"id": 790115635, "item_id": 49382227, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382227", "by": "nikolay", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "although I pay for Zed", "excerpt": "I use Claude with the Codex plugin as a critic (sometimes I switch and manually review with Claude). With the Superpowers skill (which I am trying to get rid of), it designs expensive models and implementations, uses cheaper ones for other, less important stuff, including Haiku, sometimes upgrading if it hits a roadblock, and then, finally, reviews with expensive ones. Why would I need Composer unless I'm a poor hobb", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Git at Any Scale"}, {"id": 790114608, "item_id": 49382163, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49382163", "by": "john01dav", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using Zed lately and quite liking it.", "excerpt": "I have been using Zed lately and quite liking it. I used Jetbrains for years, but it's gotten absurdly buggy lately so I probably won't renew it. I have also used vscode and I need to use it at work, and it's fine, but I prefer Zed (fewer bugs, faster, mainly).", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "JetBrains", "story": "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"}, {"id": 789005425, "item_id": 49312839, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312839", "by": "Frannky", "date": "2026-08-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "If I want to do something advanced, I can use Zed", "excerpt": "I love the level of empowerment they unlock for super cheap. I have a personal assistant that's a Slack bot talking to ohmypy on an old Mac M1 turned into a server. It has access to my calendar, remembers the things I need to remember, and pulls data from a gym tracker\u2014an app I vibecoded just for myself\u2014to pull books and papers and create audio, and easy to digest introductions that help me understand a paper before ", "context": "", "use_case": "advanced coding tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding"}, {"id": 788610048, "item_id": 49288128, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288128", "by": "theappsecguy", "date": "2026-08-13", "stance": "compare", "quote": "I love zed but i wish they'd focus on the IDE", "excerpt": "I love zed but i wish they'd focus on the IDE for those of us that still love, write and read a ton of code for serious work. Webstorm continues to be better for TS, Goland better for Go and so on; Zed lacks too much of core functionality at the moment to be the main interface of choice", "context": "writes and reads a lot of code for serious work", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed: Delta"}, {"id": 788399392, "item_id": 49274962, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274962", "by": "calldacopsidgaf", "date": "2026-08-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I switched to Zed a few weeks ago and out-of-the-box it does everything Cursor can without charging you their dumbass premium.", "excerpt": "Literal trash for nazis. By the way if you're looking to get off of Cursor since X.ai bought them, I switched to Zed a few weeks ago and out-of-the-box it does everything Cursor can without charging you their dumbass premium. The transition is pretty much seamless", "context": "", "use_case": "code editing", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "Grok 4.6"}, {"id": 787146784, "item_id": 49196674, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196674", "by": "yza", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "there have been at least 3 issues before this one", "excerpt": "lucky you, but here's the issue (note: there have been at least 3 issues before this one) https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/58651 crossing fingers it's solved for real now. i only use wayland on my laptop where it seems to be fixed, my go-to machine is with Xorg where there's no copy-paste problems", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "code editor on Wayland", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787140432, "item_id": 49196277, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196277", "by": "aranw", "date": "2026-08-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "ever since Zed AI I've felt more and more frustrated with Zed and it's quality is starting to lack?", "excerpt": "When I saw the blog post about DeltaDB I thought oh okay cool but so what I don't really know what this is for me and how it helps me or what it does for me. Then again today I saw this link and looked at it and I can't help thing what is this to me? How does this help me, why would I want to request early access cause I have no idea what it does? I'd much prefer some more time spent building a solid editor which is ", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "VSCode", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787043056, "item_id": 49190191, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49190191", "by": "sarreph", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I love Zed and I hope that it doesn\u2019t start to go flakey.", "excerpt": "A lot of the copy on this page feels like the kind of copy an AI would produce. But I\u2019m assuming, surely, Zed writes their own copy so I don\u2019t want to accuse them of doing that. Marketing aside, this is the kind of thing (advancements in VCSes) that I\u2019d usually be excited about, but which I\u2019m less excited about coming from Zed because it makes me start to worry that they\u2019re going to continue focussing less on the cor", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787024224, "item_id": 49189014, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189014", "by": "umvi", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Don't crash my entire PC when there's a large (100+ MB) JSON file in the working directory", "excerpt": "Hmm, yeah before \"DeltaDB\" I have a big list of things I would rather they develop/fix: - Vertical activity bar (https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/58868#issuecomment-4871602351 - rejected because it \"doesn\u2019t match our design vision for Zed\") This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views. - Don't crash my entire PC when there's a large (100+ MB) JSON file", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 787022336, "item_id": 49188896, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188896", "by": "DangitBobby", "date": "2026-08-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "ACP integration is very good, IMO. I'm using it with Claude Code.", "excerpt": "ACP integration is very good, IMO. I'm using it with Claude Code. They've made so many improvements over time. I use image pasting myself, TBH I was excited it worked at all. Surprised that some rough edges around images are enough to ruin the whole thing for you.", "context": "", "use_case": "editor with agent integration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Zed DeltaDB"}, {"id": 786197201, "item_id": 49137325, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137325", "by": "RussianCow", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "These days I've switched to Zed, which is good enough (and wicked fast)", "excerpt": "They're not as good. I've tried all the options available a couple months ago, and none of them feel nearly as polished as Cursor. For one thing, Cursor Tab is just far better than any other \"next edit\" prediction I've used. I also happen to like their agent UI the most, but they don't support ACP, so you can't use it with Claude Code, which was a deal-breaker for me. These days I've switched to Zed, which is good en", "context": "", "use_case": "code editor", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"}, {"id": 786192640, "item_id": 49137040, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137040", "by": "teaearlgraycold", "date": "2026-08-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Zed lets you use Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. all through the same UI", "excerpt": "Zed lets you use Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc. all through the same UI. Like you, I use that to cross validate using models from different providers and switch over to GLM 5.2 when I exceed my Claude Code limit.", "context": "", "use_case": "running multiple coding agents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"}]}