For the last year or so, I’ve been watching the development of Zed with a lot interest. Instead of being built on a web browser like Visual Studio Code, it’s built on Rust and is insanely fast. The downside is, however, is that Cursor or Windsurf, both of which are forks of VSCode, have been the go-to place to work with LLMs in your code.

No more. The Zed team released their new agentic coding feature today, and it’s really good. Is it better than the agent experiences in Cursor or Windsurf? I wouldn’t go that far. But Zed is in the game now. Combined with the rest of the Zed experience, it means we have a choice that’s not implemented on a web browser and not subject to having core functionality disabled by Microsoft over licensing issues because it’s a fork of VSCode.