Zed is trying to position itself as a next gen hackers editor. Text editing with lessons learned from the multitude of experiments in the space. A flagship feature that is online only and requires me to trust a third party is a deal breaker to many. For instance, my employer would not be pleased if I suddenly started sharing code with another.
Take the AI out of the conversation: if you told your employer you shared the codebase, that’s an insta-fire kind of move.
Is Zed a supplier? Sounds like a random developer can sign up at will without any corporate NDAs or other established legal agreements. Will my employer hash out the NDAs for every developer tool that wants to incorporate cloud AI for the lulz?
Take the AI out of the conversation: if you told your employer you shared the codebase, that’s an insta-fire kind of move.