Their multiple rounds of VC funding are predicated on their vision of collaboration so they gotta make a go at it.

So you're saying that you're not the target audience, therefore it is silly?

people can abstract and reason about issues like...

1. Until this is possible without lock-in to a specific IDE, it's going to be heavily gated by adoption and network effect.

2. What are you going to do about communication with non-devs who don't use any IDE? Do I now have multiple chat tools I need to give attention to?

3. Bringing the attention economy to our primary work tool is probably a bad idea in the long run, given the evidence we have more broadly about the impact of the attention economy

4. They are also proposing a new version control database, which makes adoption and interoperability an even harder task. https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed#introducing-deltadb-o...

5. We are in an AI hype cycle, which comes with a lot of experiments and baggage. We're seeing both fandom and rational pushback against this experiment (and others)

The post I responded to pointed to nothing of the sort. Like many other comments here, it was focused on how the they like to work alone, pairing sucks and this endeavour is a waste.