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What is the point of this? Surely anyone who (correctly) has moral objections would require a fork getting rid of the code to support it entirely, not just a runtime toggle?


There are more reasons than moral objections one might not want to use the AI features in Zed. The post gives a few concrete examples but I think this sums up the general situation best:

> Zed is built for engineers who care about their tools. That means giving you control over your development environment, including the choice to work without AI if that's what works best for you.


That's true for this and many other features of Zed. For example, telemetry can be disabled with a simple switch. However, I feel deeply uncomfortable knowing that my editor is ready to report every file I open, commit I make, code action I perform, etc. at a moment's notice, held back only by that one line in my config file.


You can add firewall block as another line if defense


If you have a moral objection of enabling that feature, you might or might not also have a moral objection of the program having that feature, so I think not everyone does.




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