Comment by agosta
4 days ago
"Happy to see this". The folks over at Zed did all of the hard work of making the thing, try to make some money, and then someone just forks it to get rid of all of the things they need to put in to make it worth their time developing. I understand if you don't want to pay for Zed - but to celebrate someone making it harder for Zed to make money when you weren't paying them to begin with -"Happy to PLAN to pay for Zed"- is beyond.
I pay for intellij. I pay for Obsidian.
I would pay for zed.
The only path forward I see for a classic VC investment is the AI drive.
But I don't think the AI bit is valuable. A powerful plugin system would be sufficient to achieve LLM integration.
So I don't think this is a worthwhile investment unless the product gets a LOT worse and becomes actively awful for users who aren't paying beaucoup bucks for AI tooling- the ROI will have to center the AI drive.
It's not a move that will generate a good outcome for the average user.
> I understand if you don't want to pay for Zed
But he does say he does want to pay!