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Aug 20, 2025

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Quoting u/AssafMalkiIL
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025
I see Zed just received $32 million from Sequoai because “this investment lets us pursue our vision for bringing a new kind of collaboration directly into the IDE.” Well, never mind, then. I want nothing to do with “collaborative editing”, nor the inevitable decline of anything touched by VC money. Thank goodness there’s BBEdit. I’m running...
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