Zed quietly calls your selected model to generate the title of an agent session, and sends a huge amount of input context along with it (including tool call results). And we pay for that. That’s really not cool. This ends up using a frontier model to generate a 4-5 word summary for the chat window title, which is crazy. Noticed this in my OpenRouter logs.
Switched to Zed from VS Code. It’s really quite cool, mainly in terms of RAM usage and startup time. For my projects, a single VS Code window consumes around 2 GB of RAM, while the same project in Zed consumes around 90 MB. It really is quite insane. And Zed’s cold-start bootup latency is around 3 seconds (for me), compared to around 10-12 seconds in VS Code (before it’s ready to use). I don’t use a lot of extensions in VS Code.