The Zed [1]open-source code editor that is written in Rust, [2]has begun supporting Linux rather well , and has continued [3]tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features.

For more than one year now since Zed began adding [4]various AI coding features there have been requests by users to be able to disable all of these AI features. Whether it's for privacy/security reasons, environmental impact, training data, and/or other reasons. Zed developers have finally added a way to easily disable all AI functionality if so desired.

There is now a "disable_ai" global setting that can be enabled to turn off all AI features -- beginning in today's preview build and expected to be in a stable release next week. More details on this new tuning knob via [5]the Zed blog .

As an alternative to disabling all AI features outright, Zed also supports running local AI models for better privacy as well as the ability to use your own AI provider API keys.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zed-Editor-Open-Source

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zed-Native-Linux-Builds

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zed-Debugging-Merged

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zed-Adding-AI-Features

[5] https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features