Changelog Interviews – Episode #640

Building Zed's agentic editing

with Nathan Sobo

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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.

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📝 Edit Notes

Chapters

1 00:00 This week on The Changelog 01:02
2 01:02 Sponsor: Depot 02:14
3 03:16 Start the show! 02:01
4 05:17 Open Source, the hard way, from first principles 08:23
5 13:41 Functional Core, Imperative Shell 10:37
6 24:17 AI for procrastination 06:49
7 31:06 We're not late. We're ALL early. 03:43
8 34:50 $3B for Windsurf? Maybe. 05:08
9 39:58 Sponsor: Heroku 03:39
10 43:37 AI in Zed last year 02:21
11 45:58 Zed's agentic experience 08:19
12 54:17 Pre-heating the AI oven 11:52
13 1:06:08 Zed AI is amazing 05:19
14 1:11:27 Brand new vs existing apps 10:38
15 1:22:05 Sponsor: Retool 03:01
16 1:25:06 You can even agentic the settings.json file 01:15
17 1:26:21 Didn't you launch a Zed AI model? 06:10
18 1:32:31 Teams is the model AI brings to Zed's yard 06:43
19 1:39:14 Zed can call Ollama (Hello Ollama!) 04:03
20 1:43:17 How will Zed's business model change? 04:46
21 1:48:04 Go to zed.dev/agentic 02:12
22 1:50:16 Wrapping up 02:09

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