Building Zed's agentic editing (Changelog Interviews #640)

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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
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Depot (00:01:02)

https://depot.dev

3. Start the show! (00:03:16)

4. Open Source, the hard way, from first principles (00:05:17)

5. Functional Core, Imperative Shell (00:13:41)

6. AI for procrastination (00:24:17)

7. We're not late. We're ALL early. (00:31:06)

8. $3B for Windsurf? Maybe. (00:34:50)

9. Sponsor: Heroku (00:39:58)

https://www.heroku.com/changelogpodcast

10. AI in Zed last year (00:43:37)

11. Zed's agentic experience (00:45:58)

12. Pre-heating the AI oven (00:54:17)

13. Zed AI is amazing (01:06:08)

14. Brand new vs existing apps (01:11:27)

15. Sponsor: Retool (01:22:05)

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16. You can even agentic the settings.json file (01:25:06)

17. Didn't you launch a Zed AI model? (01:26:21)

18. Teams is the model AI brings to Zed's yard (01:32:31)

19. Zed can call Ollama (Hello Ollama!) (01:39:14)

20. How will Zed's business model change? (01:43:17)

21. Go to zed.dev/agentic (01:48:04)

https://zed.dev/agentic

22. Wrapping up (01:50:16)

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