I Switched from Cursor to Zed for a Week — The Results Surprised Me

Who’s Zed? Zed’s dead baby. Zed’s dead. — Butch and Fabienne — Pulp Fiction

Luckily for us, Zed is definitely not dead. Zed is alive and well and seems to be thriving.

The trusted Code Editor is at the centre of any developer’s workflow. Some obsess over it like a frenzied DJ constantly twiddling knobs whilst others simply use the default settings with whatever editor seems to be most popular within the community.

My latest IDE of choice has been Cursor, which has been great, especially with their AI integration. It’s been the smoothest experience when it comes to getting into a flow with an AI assistant.

However, the Editor Zed kept popping up online. Syntax did a review recently and Code to the moon also did a video on it recently. I read the comments on this video and knew I had to give it a try.

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