Zed code editor hears your prayers, rolls out AI-free mode

Zed, a fast new Rust-based text editor aimed at programmers, now lets you totally disable LLM bot integration. We're sure some users will rejoice – but how many?

"You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed," the developers announced late kast week, and by the time you read this, it should be available in the latest build of the editor. At the time of writing, it's in Preview build 0.197.

It's an interesting move, given that the Zed Industries homepage puts AI integration front and center. Even so, Zed users have been calling for this for about a year, citing issues such as corporate rules forbidding use of public LLM tools, so they can't risk installing it.

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