Parallel agents in Zed

Post by danelliot » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC

jamie_ca wrote: post #7

I'm buying into this workflow more the more I use it, but the real gamechanger is (a) parallel threads in worktrees, with (b) enough lifecycle hooks to treat them similarly to spinning up a VM. Specifically for me that means that after I create a worktree I get some local config files copied over and Postgres duplicating my local dev and test databases so I can test in isolation, and then when I close out a worktree…

Post by alvsilvao » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 9:33 PM UTC

alvsilvao wrote: post #63

This is great! I love Zed, but when I came across Superset I stopped using Zed. Maybe no I will go back to it

Post by paulddraper » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 9:39 PM UTC

Frannky wrote: post #61

I would love to unleash parallel agents, but I am still checking every single edit while enforcing minimal, stateless, modular code, and I have the AI check in with me before writing the next file. A lot of times, I find it has incredibly stupid ideas and tends to make the code very messy. I would love to figure out how to stop that from happening automatically. The upside of checking in on the code, though, is that…

Post by theappsecguy » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 9:46 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #50

Zed is probably the best text editor in the last 10 years. It has quirks, but it is insanely powerful and capable out of the box. I don't even bother trying to setup Neovim because of Zed. They let people for PRs for missing vim features for their vim emulation, and its insanely capable. I hope someday they get the funding they deserve, because it has insane potential. It's why I subscribe to their pay plan, even if…

Post by dalenw » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 10:03 PM UTC

theappsecguy wrote: post #68

giancarlostoro wrote: post #50

Zed is probably the best text editor in the last 10 years. It has quirks, but it is insanely powerful and capable out of the box. I don't even bother trying to setup Neovim because of Zed. They let people for PRs for missing vim features for their vim emulation, and its insanely capable. I hope someday they get the funding they deserve, because it has insane potential. It's why I subscribe to their pay plan, even if…

I do wish they'd focus on closing the gap to Jetbrains by implementing the QOL features that are missing. I understand they have to do what VC wants to see, but this agentic stuff is so tiring.