I don't have any problem with them investing heavily in this, I just think they need to be smart about the UX and not let the business VC drive the experience this much. Pivoting from text editor to agent manager is a bad choice IMO, when it can easily be both and help people onboard from editor to agentic workflows.

$VC disagrees w/ you on this.

Unfortunately.

Personally, I still pay Zed because I think they’re doing great foundational work. However I’ve now almost entirely migrated to helix for editing needs.

> I don't want it to continue pivoting towards pushing agent management deeper and deeper into the experience.

AI and agent tooling is the only way this VC-backed company is going to make any money. Nobody is going to pay for a text editor, so they've had no choice but to enshitify it by chasing AI features for the last year+.