We're Not Building AI Features for the Money — Zed's Blog

Zed's team responds to community criticism that AI features are purely profit-driven. They clarify they were actually selling tokens at a loss and switched to token-based billing to stay sustainable. The post addresses skepticism about AI-generated code, with the author sharing his own evolving workflow using LLMs as productivity tools while maintaining human oversight. Zed's long-term vision centers on DeltaDB, an operation-level synchronization engine designed to enable humans and AI agents to collaborate on a shared, consistent view of a codebase. The post argues that as code production costs drop, collaboration and review tooling becomes proportionally more important, and that git-era tools are insufficient for an agentic world.