Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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The most valuable context about a piece of code now lives before the commit, in the conversations you had with your agent to get there. Git was never built to capture that, and Anant thinks that's the gap worth closing.

Anant Goel is an AI engineer at Zed, working on the agent side of the editor. We talked about why git tracks the final artifact but loses the reasoning behind it, what Zed is building to fix that, and how code review changes when the question shifts from "does this look good" to "how was this actually built."
In this conversation:

• Why most eval metrics are vanity metrics, and what Zed watches instead
• How Zed ships new model support fast without changing the editor's behavior under you
• What git misses in an agentic workflow, and how Delta DB captures file operations and context in a CRDT
• The new code-review checklist: was this a first pass or the fifth rewrite, and what did the agent learn along the way
• Why Anant still reads every line headed to production, and what would have to change for that to stop

Zed: https://zed.dev
WorkOS: workos.com