We're Not Building AI Features for the Money

I think if you're a VC funded company doing something subscription-y or something niche then you have the distrust of the public going. There have been too many rugpulls, or changes in how the company works, where people got burned. Now throw in LLMs and hate will be thrown around.

I've been using Zed on-and-off since a long time now(I think my Zed extension still had the json config), and I appreciate the "turn-off-all the AI" flag, and the login button can also be hidden, so I'm still positive on Zeds outlook. They have improved these types of configs rather than let them be(which a lot of other companies don't do!)

But on a pessimistic day, if I read on a homepage:

Zed is a minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI.

Then I'll also just continue using helix or Emacs and walk past right by the slightly red flags. There are things like teamtype that make collaboration possible between editors as well, and I just have very little interest in (sharing things) that target LLMs.

If there are other cool stuff about Zed, like GPUI refactors or cross-platform voice chat that can be written, I'd much rather read that, but that might not be as popular.