I think the point is that they don’t both work equally well.

Once the UI soup around AI dev use has settled (and it's getting closer) I bet you we will see native apps with c/c++/zig/rust backends that render so much faster on all the junctions that aren't roundtrip limited (and yes, that will still matter to many people).

These are two of the fastest editors, and I use both, but I don't think they're for the same thing: Zed is for multi-file projects with moderate IDE abstractions (Worse than Jetbrains; better than most others); Sublime is for editing one-off files with syntax highlighting.

On the contrary, I am glad that the Sublime team did not fall for the trends and avoided adding AI slop into the editor

I don't know, does Cursor offer anything substantial beyond an extension like kilocode? (I've only used vanilla VSCodium branch with various extensions but they all seem to integrate everything from tab-completion to complete UI agentic take-over very well)

OS? You mean HAL wrapper?

They'll have to compete with these other pending funded companies:

- ai therapist for your ai agents

- genetic ai agent container orchestration; only the best results survive so they have to fight for their virtual lives

- prompt engineering as a service

- social media post generator so you can post "what if ai fundamentally changes everything about how people interact with software" think pieces even faster

- vector db but actually json for some reason

(Edit: formatting)