Yesterday, I determined to move to Zed because they weren't pushing this stuff :(

You can disable all AI features in Zed with a single setting: https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

It doesn’t mean the bulk of their effort isn’t going to AI slopshit.

I disagree. All their "AI slopshit" features are useful, and the fact that you can just.. turn them off and get a great editor regardless is what I like about it.

As compared to the slopshit that you'd rather have them working on to fit your personal needs?

zed's got about 60 billion reasons to add an agent panel

Zed was one of the very-early editors to jump on adding AI. Might want to look elsewhere.

They are at least more tasteful about it, but they do have to keep getting VCs. And no one has ever accused VCs of being smart or technical.