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

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.