Mikie vs Zed: speed first.
Zed optimized the editor. Mikie optimizes what the model reads inside it.
What Zed is
Zed is a fast, collaborative editor with an agent panel. Its AI story is speed and ergonomics; context is whatever you or the agent pull into the thread, with no ranking pass and no record of what a turn cost.
Positioning comparison — Zed's agent panel has no exported measurement surface to compare against, so there are no head-to-head rows.
The honest read
Zed wins the editor-latency argument and we're not in it. Mikie's job starts where Zed's ends: deciding which 1,900 tokens of your repo the model actually needs, then proving the saving.
Verdict
Fast editor, small packets, honest receipts — they compose.
Measure it on your own repo.
Every claim above traces to a measurement row or is labeled as positioning. That’s the product.