Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

Really hope for this to get traction so I’m not bound to the usual IDE

Fingers crossed for this - it seems like Zed is kinda “going back to the roots” (of working on collaboration) and leaving this in place to disrupt the agentic IDE category (and make themselves not have to spend time on competing in it).

Curious to see how adoption among cli agents will go (it’s nice to see Gemini cli already in).

The level of competition in the LLM and coding assistant market is always nice to see, and this only helps to make costs of switching between offerings even smaller.

The protocol for interacting with code is files and text.

You need to define an interface for Ai to click buttons? Or to create keyboard macros that simulate clicking buttons? We are all doomed!

I'm basically sold on Zed, it has everything I have wanted from an editor for years, and that's without the amazing other things that they added that I wasn't even envisioning. For years I've prototyped a few different editors because of frustration with the status quo. There's a lot of work that goes into a good editor, and Zed has definitely done the legwork.

I welcome them openly collaborating.

I'm fine with treating AI like a human developer:

I ask AI to write a feature (or fix a bug, or do a refactoring) and then I read the commit. If the commit is not to my liking, I "git reset --hard", improve my prompt and ask the AI to do the task again.

I call this "prompt coding":

https://www.gibney.org/prompt_coding

This way, there is no interaction between my coding environment and the AI at all. Just like working with a human developer does not involve them doing anything in my editor.