Building Zed's agentic editing | Nathan Sobo on Zed's AI-native code editing

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. SUBSCRIBE: RSS: https://changelog.fm/rss Apple: https://changelog.fm/apple Spotify: https://changelog.fm/spotify Android: https://changelog.fm/android Overcast: https://changelog.fm/overcast Email: https://changelog.fm/email X: https://x.com/changelog Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/changelog.com Mastodon: https://changelog.social/@changelog SPONSORS: Depot - **10x faster builds? Yes please.** Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with your existing CI provider and dev workflows to save hours of build time. https://depot.dev Heroku - **The Next Generation of Heroku "Fir" is coming soon** — Fir is built on a foundation of cloud native technologies and open source standards, ensuring portability, interoperability, and a vibrant ecosystem for your applications. Cloud Native for everyone, for the next decade and beyond. https://www.heroku.com/changelogpodcast Retool - **The low-code platform for developers to build internal tools** — Some of the best teams out there trust Retool…Brex, Coinbase, Plaid, Doordash, LegalGenius, Amazon, Allbirds, Peloton, and so many more – the developers at these teams trust Retool as the platform to build their internal tools. Try it free at retool.com/changelog https://retool.com/changelog LINKS: - https://zed.dev/agentic - https://zed.dev/leaked-prompts CHAPTERS: 00:00 Start the show! 01:49 Open Source, the hard way, from first principles 10:12 Functional Core, Imperative Shell 20:49 AI for procrastination 27:38 We're not late. We're ALL early. 31:21 $3B for Windsurf? Maybe. 36:25 AI in Zed last year 38:47 Zed's agentic experience 47:05 Pre-heating the AI oven 58:57 Zed AI is amazing 1:04:16 Brand new vs existing apps 1:14:42 You can even agentic the settings.json file 1:15:57 Didn't you launch a Zed AI model? 1:22:07 Teams is the model AI brings to Zed's yard 1:28:50 Zed can call Ollama (Hello Ollama!) 1:32:54 How will Zed's business model change? 1:37:40 Go to zed.dev/agentic 1:39:52 Warpping up