I have never been a big fan of pull requests. Before agents, it was easier to believe that the ceremony of trading comments on snapshots was an effective way to collaborate on software, but it never really worked for the Zed team. We frequently work together in the same worktree, building trust and shared understanding by discussing the code as we write it . GitHub doesn't let you talk about code until after you commit and push, but by then our most important conversations are usually already over. So in 2021, we founded Zed to move beyond the constraints of commits. Our plan was to build an editor worthy of the world's best developers , then offer a better way to work together inside it. We didn't foresee then how the problems we'd spent years thinking about in the context of human-to-human collaboration would become even more important when collaborating with agents. Increasingly, the conversation that generates the code is becoming the true source of our software.…