Zed CEO on Meta's coding agent: fast and pleasant, but needs a lot of hand-holding
zeeg · x · 2026-09-12
Zed CEO Nathan Soller shares hands-on notes on Meta's coding agent: it ignores preset guidance like AGENTS.md, spends few reasoning tokens, but is fast with pleasant UX — usable, though it needs lots of hand-holding. The sandbox is also aggressive (can't initiate CLI auth due to unreachable network), a minor inconvenience.
- Weak at following preset guidance (AGENTS.md)
- Low reasoning/thinking token budget, likely why
- Fast, pleasant language and UX
- Aggressive sandboxing adds friction
Related event: Founders test Meta's Muse Spark: fast but needs heavy hand-holding(5 posts)→
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