Zed's answer to agents writing all the code: an editor built around reading it
Zed Industries, which makes the Rust-based editor of the same name, announced Delta on 12 August. Co-founder Nathan Sobo describes it as a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing what they build. The premise is that once agents write most of the code, the bottleneck moves to review — and today's tools truncate exactly what you need to see. Delta keeps every diff and every agent transcript in full, anchors comments to the code so they travel with it as the code changes around them, and syncs edits between people and agents in real time through a store the company calls DeltaDB. Threads stay private until you share them. It runs in the browser, compiled to WebAssembly, and works with third-party agents including Claude Code. It is in private beta; the first invitations went out on announcement day, and no pricing has been published.
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