# Zed Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Zed is the Rust-built, open-source code editor: blazing-fast performance (58ms launch) meets real-time, multiplayer collaboration and native AI integration.

Zed is a next-generation, open-source code editor, engineered from the ground up in Rust to deliver superior speed and efficiency: it leverages multiple CPU cores and the GPU for a sub-60ms launch time. Developed by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, Zed focuses on modern, collaborative workflows. Core functionality includes real-time, multiplayer editing sessions, first-class Git support, and native AI integration powered by its open-source Zeta language model (agentic editing and intelligent refactoring). It is available for macOS, Linux, and Windows.

- Official technology site: https://zed.dev/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 4
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [VLMs for Electronics Design](https://raleigh.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_PDqUleDH6rI)

An electronics design tool (think KiCAD or Altium) that leverages VLMs to turn vendor datasheet PDFs into live component models extracted directly from manufacturer reference documentation. The AI Tinkerers demo shows how I built the extraction pipeline using small open weight VLMs deployed on Modal, and a UI built on top of Zed's GPUI framework. The code and benchmark results discussed during the talk are now available on Github as the Parselab project.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Raleigh Meetup — May 6, 2026 — 2026-05-06 — Raleigh
- Public talk page: https://raleigh.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_PDqUleDH6rI

### [Determinisim In The Agentic World](https://berlin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_OxDgz_bC0rA)

When agents can write code faster than you can review it, quality becomes the bottleneck. This talk covers how to maintain high confidence in agent generated code by applying Zed's three engineering pillars alongside a fourth rule: always give the agent a deterministic feedback loop. Using Zed's git graph as a case study, I'll walk through how property based testing lets an agent verify its own changes against invariants instead of relying on human review to catch regressions. I'll also preview a debugger tool call that gives agents direct access to runtime state. The core idea is practical. If an agent can't prove its output is correct, the velocity it gives you is a liability.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Berlin Meetup - March 11, 2026 — 2026-03-11 — Berlin
- Public talk page: https://berlin.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_OxDgz_bC0rA

### [Enzyme - a context server from your PKM system](https://nyc.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_WS0CYHmFIio)

Enzyme is a context server that leverages an Obsidian / Markdown vault's metadata. It is interoperable with the Model Context Protocol (works with Zed and Claude Desktop). With it, you can query by tag, entity, or folder for your most recent markdown notes on the topic, and feed these to an LLM. I have developed Enzyme solo as an Obsidian plugin (where it cites its sources as block embeds) and have gathered feedback from a few users over the course of the past year. However, I use it daily, and have recently broken it out into an app that generalizes to Markdown vaults beyond Obsidian.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers - New York City - December 2024 Meetup — 2024-12-12 — New York City
- Public talk page: https://nyc.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_WS0CYHmFIio

### [The plumbing behind intelligent IDEs](https://london.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_uq6370Giy8o)

I'd like to give a brief overview of some of the tricks that go into making intelligent IDEs. I've been reverse engineering many of Cursor's features to make my own Jupyter notebook client, Satyrn (https://satyrn.app), much better, and I've learned some cool things along the way I think would be fun to put into talk. I'll basically cover what I have learned about how I think Cursor do command-k, chat context management, and Tab-to-edit. This research has been drawn from studying open source editors and plugins including Zed, Continue.dev, and Twinny; as well as some public published research on the topic: - https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17103 - https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.14255

- Event context: AI Tinkerers London - December Meetup 🎄 — 2024-12-04 — London
- Public talk page: https://london.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_uq6370Giy8o

## Related Technologies

- [agentic tool calls](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/agentic-tool-calls) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/agentic-tool-calls.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Claude Desktop](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/claude-desktop) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/claude-desktop.md)) — 5 public demos
- [Continue](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/continue) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/continue.md)) — 2 public demos
- [Cursor](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/cursor) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/cursor.md)) — 65 public demos
- [Debugger tool](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/debugger-tool) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/debugger-tool.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Deterministic feedback loop](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/deterministic-feedback-loop) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/deterministic-feedback-loop.md)) — 1 public demo
- [git](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/git) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/git.md)) — 24 public demos
- [Git graph](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/git-graph) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/git-graph.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Jupyter notebook](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/jupyter-notebook) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/jupyter-notebook.md)) — 13 public demos
- [Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/markdown) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/markdown.md)) — 24 public demos
- [Modal](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/modal) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/modal.md)) — 14 public demos
- [Obsidian](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/obsidian) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/obsidian.md)) — 6 public demos
- [Property-based testing](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/property-based-testing) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/property-based-testing.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Qwen3](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/qwen3) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/qwen3.md)) — 9 public demos
- [Rust](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/rust) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/rust.md)) — 56 public demos
- [Satyrn](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/satyrn) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/satyrn.md)) — 1 public demo
- [vLLM](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/vllm) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/vllm.md)) — 33 public demos
- [Zed GPUI](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/zed-gpui) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/zed-gpui.md)) — 1 public demo