they are not intrusive but their entire focus changed on that instead of other features. Entire Git view feels abandoned in half done state yet they spent entire month working on AI chats, AI agents, their own AI edit (that's priced 20 per month yet they boast how light and performant it is -- why isn't it free local model then and why its priced worse than copilot?)
They're moving from "making awesome code editor" into yet another "buy our ai" product
debugger is very far from being feature-complete, I would call it MVP at the moment; lets see if they will iterate on that or will quickly go back to new shiny thing...
The fact that they have released both features within 3 months of each other is mind boggling. Their development velocity is insane. These are not trivial features.
AFAIK they added conflict resolution just recently, so it's not like non-AI features such as Git get no attention at all. And of course the debugger now.
I'm much prefer the VS Code style when you have 2 clear sections: staged and not staged. Zed's chose the IntelliJ style which is just a bunch of checkboxes, I can see it being easier to understand for the novice, but not very intuitive from a git point of view.
Never used Git in Jetbrain IDEs or Zed (yet), but recently VS Code improved a lot the Git by making easier to stage changes in a file in a granular manner (I tried briefly edamagit extension a while ago and now use a lot gitu in the terminal, in combination with VS Code version control).
I suspect their previous “collab editing” marketing angle was probably not a big enough draw. AI features seem to be desired by more people, or at least the hype cycle currently says so.
I think you're referring to autocomplete? It's much better than, say, 2 years ago when it was indeed annoying as hell. Having said I always turn it off and use agentic coding, which is not intrusive, only activate if you ask for it. This applies to all coding tools these days, autocomplete is no longer their focus.
