Considering Zed introduced AI and it's so much faster than Cursor or VSCode, I think the competition will be much harder than they sold to the investors.
Cursor had the vector indexing going on but it doesn't work very well in my experience. Oftentimes it doesn't find stuff and I have to manually search anyway.
Cursor is still pretty good as an editor, I've been using it for a while and even the free plan is pretty good value. LLMs are still pretty bad at coding (Claude, GPT, it doesn't matter) so even cursor-small is almost always enough for the kind of task you would offload to a LLM.
Zed's approach of building the context manually with files and text and then asking for stuff is way more direct and less "magic". It works consistently.
Cursor had the vector indexing going on but it doesn't work very well in my experience. Oftentimes it doesn't find stuff and I have to manually search anyway. Cursor is still pretty good as an editor, I've been using it for a while and even the free plan is pretty good value. LLMs are still pretty bad at coding (Claude, GPT, it doesn't matter) so even cursor-small is almost always enough for the kind of task you would offload to a LLM.
Zed's approach of building the context manually with files and text and then asking for stuff is way more direct and less "magic". It works consistently.