Episode 162: The AI Code Editor War with Zed

⁠Nathan Sobo⁠ is the Founder of ⁠Zed⁠, the next-gen code editor that enables high-performance collaboration - powered by AI. Open source ⁠zed⁠ has 53K Stars on GitHub and is used by engineers at Vercel, Apple, Anthropic, and GitLab. Prior to founding Zed, Nathan created the editor ⁠Atom⁠ at GitHub which reached 1M+ active users.

Zed has raised from investors including Redpoint and Root Ventures.

In this episode, we dive into Nathan's deep history with code editors including the widely adopted GitHub editor Atom, the decision to make Zed open source (and the massive 10x growth that came from it), how AI changed their trajectory, why collaboration is core to becoming the defacto editor, anchoring on performance and responsiveness, how they're thinking about the commercial side of Zed & more!

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