Since the VC investment by Sequoia I’ve had my doubts about Zed. For one thing, a certain high-profile member of that VC publicly promotes a worldview that does not align with mine. For another, I’ve had it with my favorite products constantly enshittifying. I’d always seen my subscription more as a recurring donation toward development anyway, so I canceled it.

That said, Zed continues to impress. The editor itself, the technical blog posts, the introduction of new standards like ACP, fair pricing – all paint a picture of a talented, stand-up group of people.

So I welcome this new pricing, although like others I’m confused why I would pay 10% extra if I can BYOK.

Honestly, I wish I could just pay for Zed as a regular user. After all, I pay for Pycharm even though I don’t use it that much these days. I want to be a paying user so that Zed’s incentives align with mine, not with some big corpo’s. But perhaps that sort of thinking is detached from the reality of building a viable business around an editor…

Are you referring to Shaun Maguire remarks labeling Zohran Mamdani an "Islamist"?

Then you'll love that a16z general partner Katherine Boyle went on Bari Weiss's[0] podcast[1] to help spin the Charlie Kirk martyrdom narrative.

0. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bari-weiss-free-pr...

1. And syndicated it, themselves: https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/charlie-kirk-and-the-ri...