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> Our goal at Zed has always been to build the world’s best code editor. Not true, Zed goal is > code editor [with] high-performance collaboration with humans

• comprev 1y ago
  > code editor [with] high-performance collaboration with humans and AI When investors are involved this immediately changes to: > Our goal is to build a product which will hopefully return more than our financial investment. I get the feeling many HN contributors to this discussion forget that Zed is not a software project like Neovim, Nano or Emacs (etc.) which rely on donations and/or sponsors to either pay developers or cover required infrastructure costs. It's a product backed by investors who - one day - will demand their pound of flesh, and "features" like AI are added to market the product to _more_ investors. Perhaps the use of AI itself inside the product will also be tracked to steer potential opportunities for the investors themselves. Like many fellow HN'ers, I use Zed on a daily basis, and it's no different than Google search or Facebook - "If a product from investors is free, YOU are the product"