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• Elevated error rate across multiple models

  With Agent Client Protocol (ACP) you can keep the same UI and switch not models, but entire agents, that means using tools/prompts/compaction/etc that are tailored for the model. Try Zed[1] for GUI and pool[2] for TUI. [1] https://zed.dev/ [2] https://github.com/poolsideai/pool. - Source: Hacker News / 26 days ago

• Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)

  Devcontainers + Claude + Pi [1] Zed https://zed.dev/ [2] Terminal threads https://zed.dev/blog/terminal-threads As sort of byproduct also replaced Alacritty + Zellij (i just don't have the need to use more, 3 weeks of new setup). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)

  The simplest mainstream options for tools: 1) Claude Desktop which includes Claude Code for Anthropic: https://claude.com/product/claude-code (alternatively the terminal based version; either way get the subscription) 2) Codex for OpenAI: https://developers.openai.com/codex/app (same as above, subscription preferred instead of paying per token) 3) OpenCode for a variety of models: https://opencode.ai/ (they also... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Tools I'm Using in 2026 (and what I've stopped using from 2025)

  That said, sometimes you do just want an editor, not a full blown IDE, and for that for the last few months I've been experimenting with Zed. It's okay. I've had some weird issues with their terminal emulator; I don't know what they are doing but my ZSH config doesn't load right so it sometimes gets stuck in what looks like an infinite loop, and then my PATH is all messed up... IDK, I expect my editors to kinda... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Building a native terminal for AI coding agents in Rust + GPUI

  This is a post-mortem, not a launch post. Paneflow is a native terminal workspace, splits, panes, branch-aware workspaces, session restore, built in pure Rust on top of Zed's GPUI framework and the upstream alacritty_terminal crate. It started as a port of cmux, a macOS-only Swift/AppKit project, and the Rust rewrite forced a string of decisions I had no good intuition for at the start. I want to walk through the... - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• SpaceX and Cursor partnership. Right to acquire Cursor later this year

  Zed - https://zed.dev/ Integrates a lot of agents (I use it with OpenRouter and directly with Pi) natively, is fast (you don't realise how laggy VSCode and its forks are). Biggest disadvantage: lack of extensions. Lots of quality of life missing (e.g. Gitignore integration to add/append gitignore files for different languages). - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Lightweight IDE to Pair with Claude Code?

  Zed is what you’re looking for - https://zed.dev/ Super lightweight and a joy to use. Unsure on the remote access part though. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• "You Wouldn’t Steal a DIV": How I Built My Portfolio

  Now I'm not going to lie and say I designed and coded everything myself. I took large parts of the code and page layout from the open-source portfolio by Chanhdai and design inspiration from zed.dev, which I had previously attempted in unfinished side projects (https://trends.brodin.dev and https://ui.brodin.dev if they're still available). - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Helix: A post-modern text editor

  I think Zed editor has helix phylosophy of supporting LSP out of the box while having exact vi bindings if it is important. [1] https://zed.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

  Zed Industries | North America, South America, Europe REMOTE | https://zed.dev/ Zed is a company for developers, by developers. All 3 of our founders have spent years in the trenches writing software and still do it almost every single day. We know the only way to build the world's best code editor is by equipping every single member of the team to do the best work of their career. We've raised $42M to support our... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Introducing ACP Bridge to Amp Code

  Zed (https://zed.dev) - Modern editor with native ACP support. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Omarcacca

  I setup my editor to be zed instead of neovim but it was still no applying properly for config updates, since it was always using neovim. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• A Comment Divider for Zed using Nushell

  Like many of you, I recently switched from VS Code to Zed. Despite having a few limitations compared to the "programming behemoth," I absolutely love it. It’s fast, reliable, and packed with useful features. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Build a Miro Like Collaborative Features using Velt MCP and Zed IDE🔥

  I'll start by generating a clean mind mapping interface using Magic Patterns. Then, I'll use Zed IDE with Velt's Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration to add real-time collaboration features. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

  I've been having a very good time with Zed. Great vim motion support, and fast to the point where using VSCode feels like driving a semi truck by comparison. https://zed.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot

  I’ve been using Zed [1] for some time now. They are also pretty AI focused so it may only be a matter of time, but so far I’ve been able to disable all of the AI interactions. [1] https://zed.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

  Zed Industries | North America, South America, Europe REMOTE | https://zed.dev/ Zed is a company for developers, by developers. All 3 of our founders have spent years in the trenches writing software and still do it almost every single day. We know the only way to build the world's best code editor is by equipping every single member of the team to do the best work of their career. We've raised $42M... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Switching to Zed: Made my own VSCode-Rest utility

  I had enough, so decided to give a serious go to zed. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• WebAssembly from the Ground Up

  Ah, good catch! I see them in one of the screenshots. Those are just inlay hints, they're not in the source code. (The editor is https://zed.dev). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Implementing Strictly Typed JsonRpc Method Calls in Kotlin

  Recently, I started developing a Kotlin SDK for the Agent Client Protocol. To put it briefly, this protocol is designed for universal integration of various AI coding agents into any IDE, such as the Zed editor (whose authors created this protocol) or our JetBrains IDE family. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Make AI Your Copilot, Not Your Autopilot

  For autocompletion. AI tools like Copilot or Supermaven can be great autocompletion partners. They index your entire codebase and suggest code. The best part is when they suggest something tedious, like a list of names or a function to convert text to sentence case. These are things you already know. However, I don't like multi-line suggestions. Just when you're thinking, "Okay, I need to write this and that,"... - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago