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We're Not Building AI Features for the Money
Answering critics who say Zed chases AI money or ships sloppy AI features, the company says it sold tokens to most paying AI users at a loss before switching to token billing, and now resells usage at the provider's list price plus 10 percent. The author admits heavy agentic coding led to false starts on DeltaDB, yet still leans on agents for refactoring and writing tests. He argues that as code gets cheaper to produce, sharing, review and maintenance dominate costs, which is why Zed is building DeltaDB to give humans and agents one shared view of a codebase.
We were early in making this change, but feel increasing conviction we were correct.
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