The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued 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 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 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.
