It appears the developers behind the Zed editor – yes, the ones who've apparently spent the last year unable to procure a Windows machine to build a version for that OS – have noticed something: their unreleased Zed AI is already becoming outdated.

Consequently, they're now rolling out 'Agentic Editing' to their beta testers. Based on the description, it seems to offer the expected suite of modern features: automatic code editing, chat profiles, a rules file for system instructions, LLM switching (including non-Anthropic options), MCP, and checkpoints (currently handled via git in beta).

Importantly, this could genuinely position Zed as a strong alternative to the dominance of VS Code and its forks. Just as soon as they manage to, you know, finally ship that Windows version. In the meantime, Windows users can install Zed using Scoop.

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