React Summit

React Summit 2026

Gaauwe Rombouts

Speed, Quality, and AI: You Can't Have It All (Or Can You?)

<p>Every team building with AI faces the same tension: move fast and ship, or slow down and get it right. At Zed, we build an IDE obsessed with performance and quality. This means being brutally honest about where AI helps, where it hurts, and how we make decisions when the answer isn't obvious. This is the story of how we navigate that tension in practice — the tradeoffs, the mistakes, and the framework we've built for keeping quality alive when speed is the default.spectrum of dev workflows. All while being fully obsessed with quality, speed, and performance.</p>