I was interested in Zed, but lost all interest when they started integrating "AI". I'm tired of "AI" everywhere.
I'll just stick with Neovim until something better comes around. Which probably won't happen until after the "AI" bubble bursts.
Zed was the first editor that tempted me into using AI features. It felt solid in general and AI feels mostly like autocomplete in other editors (in terms of how much it's in your face). There's definitely a place for AI models and agents in code editors, and Zed makes me feel like it's not built around them, which is great! Zed feel like "Come to us, we are making a good fast editor that also has AI." while competition feel like "Come to us, we want AI that has an editor".
I'm genuinely happy it works for you. I just don't want AI in my text editor, even if you're happy with it.
Then don't use it? It's completely optional and works perfectly fine without AI
Thanks for the tip, but I was already not using it
It's an unexpected position to take, though. You said you had been interested in Zed until they integrated AI. The response was "the AI is completely optional", which I'd expect would make you more likely to use Zed, since it removes your objection. But it doesn't change your position at all, which makes me suspect it's not that you're worried the AI would interfere with your workflow, but that it's there at all. So, is your position that the very fact that Zed allowed AI to touch it has infected it in some way?
I'm not interested in using text editors with chat bot integration, hope this clarifies things