# Zed's Anant Goel on evals, agent context, and the limits of git

DevFeed: [Zed's Anant Goel on evals, agent context, and the limits of git](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/zed-s-anant-goel-on-evals-agent-context-and-the-limits-of-git-16077.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://workos.com/blog/zed-anant-goel-evals-agent-context-aie-2026>)

Author: WorkOS

Published: 2026-08-05T23:21:14Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [WorkOS Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/workos-blog.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [ai-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-engineer.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [evals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/evals.md>), [git](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/git.md>), [models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/models.md>)

## AI overview

Zed AI engineer Anant Goel discusses evaluating every new model release, avoiding vanity metrics, and maintaining a stable code-editor experience as users adopt different models and providers. The article also examines the development work that happens outside Git before code reaches a final commit.

## Source excerpt

Zed AI engineer Anant Goel on running evals for every model release, why most eval metrics are vanity, and the work that happens before the final commit.