{
  "id": 7857834,
  "title": "“Everyone’s in a race to replace GitHub”: Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/everyones-in-a-race-to-replace-github-zed-launches-delta-because",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-16T19:45:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New Stack",
    "slug": "the-new-stack",
    "url": "https://thenewstack.io/zed-delta-github-alternative/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In 2026, developers are increasingly seeking alternatives to GitHub, which is no longer deemed suitable for their needs. One of the primary issues is the sheer volume of code generated, revised, and submitted by agents, which outpaces GitHub's design for human developers working through commits, branches, and pull requests. Moreover, the interaction model of GitHub leaves much of the reasoning behind a change outside of the pull request, making it difficult for reviewers to understand the journey that led to the resulting diff. Zed, a developer platform company founded in 2021, has launched a public beta of Delta, a collaborative environment designed to address these challenges. Delta enables developers and coding agents to work, review, and revise code together in shared threads instead of pull requests. The central concept behind Delta is the thread, a running record of an agent-assisted coding task where the conversation and the files being changed remain connected. Developers can share their threads with teammates and review changes while preserving the original agent context. Zed has already disabled pull requests on Delta's own repository and now collaborates exclusively through Delta threads. This shift has allowed Zed to develop the product without the need for pull requests, with 33 developers having contributed 570 changes to the main branch without using pull requests. While Delta currently works with Git repositories, Zed plans to transition away from Git and integrate Git storage into DeltaDB, ultimately making GitHub obsolete.",
  "summary": "Something of a consensus has emerged from the developer fraternity in 2026 — GitHub, a platform built substantively for human The post “Everyone’s in a race to replace GitHub”: Zed launches Delta because agents made pull requests obsolete appeared first on The New Stack .",
  "key_points": [
    "Zed, a developer platform, launches Delta to replace GitHub",
    "Delta uses threads for agent-assisted coding tasks instead of pull requests",
    "Zed disables pull requests on Delta's repository, collaborating through threads"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}