Why Zed Is Replacing VS Code in My AI-Augmented Workflow

VS Code won the editor wars by becoming the Walmart of IDEs — everything available, nothing optimized. That worked fine until AI coding assistants started making the underlying editor speed matter again. When your workflow involves spinning up Claude Code sessions, running agents in the terminal, and context-switching fast between files and inline edits, the latency VS Code buries in its Electron shell adds up in ways you start noticing. I switched to Zed about four months ago. Not as an experi...