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Building Zed's agentic editing (Interview)
May 7, 2025 · 1 hr 52 min · 162.1 MB
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Nathan Sobo is back talking about the next big thing for Zed—agentic editing! You now have a full-blown AI-native editor to play with. Collaborate with agents at 120fps in a natively multiplayer IDE.
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- Nathan Sobo – GitHub, X
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Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 1:02Sponsor: Depot
- 3:16Start the show!
- 5:17Open Source, the hard way, from first principles
- 13:41Functional Core, Imperative Shell
- 24:17AI for procrastination
- 31:06We're not late. We're ALL early.
- 34:50$3B for Windsurf? Maybe.
- 39:58Sponsor: Heroku
- 43:37AI in Zed last year
- 45:58Zed's agentic experience
- 54:17Pre-heating the AI oven
- 1:06:08Zed AI is amazing
- 1:11:27Brand new vs existing apps
- 1:22:05Sponsor: Retool
- 1:25:06You can even agentic the settings.json file
- 1:26:21Didn't you launch a Zed AI model?
- 1:32:31Teams is the model AI brings to Zed's yard
- 1:39:14Zed can call Ollama (Hello Ollama!)
- 1:43:17How will Zed's business model change?
- 1:48:04Go to zed.dev/agentic
- 1:50:16Wrapping up