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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by kar1181 »

barkerja wrote: post #349
andreygrehov wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, why not just stick to Cursor instead?

For me, the editor is still the most important component of my tooling. The AI features are secondary to my needs/wants when it comes to an editor. Zed is hitting all the checkboxes when it comes to performance and user experience (yeah, I care about that in my editor). I'm not a hardcore user of AI, but I do make use of Zed's inline suggestions and occasional use of Opus 4.1 through my Zed subscription.

This is it, in terms of pure text editing zed is the best GUI land editor I've used.

Not quite there with emacs/vim but it's a much more accessible environment and more convenient for typical workloads.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by ramon156 »

kar1181 wrote: post #367

Also love Zed, but sigh, it's VC funded. We all know how this is going to end. Best VIM mode ever implemented in a (non vim) app. I use it as my 2nd editor (most of the time in Jetbrains products). I just hope I'm wrong about the medium term impact of the VC funding but rushing AI AI AI out seems to be a sign of that rather than fixing fundamental issues that remain such as the ugly font rendering.

Zed being OS is 100% what's keeping me from moving away. If anything happens you just fork it and accept it as-is

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by kar1181 »

ramon156 wrote: post #372
kar1181 wrote: post #367

Also love Zed, but sigh, it's VC funded. We all know how this is going to end. Best VIM mode ever implemented in a (non vim) app. I use it as my 2nd editor (most of the time in Jetbrains products). I just hope I'm wrong about the medium term impact of the VC funding but rushing AI AI AI out seems to be a sign of that rather than fixing fundamental issues that remain such as the ugly font rendering.

Zed being OS is 100% what's keeping me from moving away. If anything happens you just fork it and accept it as-is

Agreed, though being OS is no panacea as we have seen from countless other projects, but it does mitigate some concern of investing in an editor and its ecosystem and getting rugpulled.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by wolvesechoes »

TheRoque wrote: post #22
extr wrote: post #10

Zed is so great, I do wish they would focus just a little bit more on bringing the UI just a bit more up to parity with VS Code, I would switch full time.

What's so great about zed ?

It is new and is talked about a lot on HN and Reddit. And it is not developed by Big Bad Corporation, instead it is developed by Good VC-backed Startup.

In this demographics, hype rarely is connected to technical qualities, they are used more as a post-hoc rationalization.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by freehorse »

skhameneh wrote: post #318
throw47592 wrote: post #317

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zed does have a way to run LLMs without tool calling. From the agent pane, in the menu, select “new text thread”. I believe there’s a keyboard shortcut but I’m on my phone right now.

I'll take another look but from what I perceived all attempts to start a thread included tool calling in the payload. I couldn't seem to get any message through without tool calling instructions in the payload. What you're describing sounds exactly like what I attempted. I tried something like over 6 different variations of model configs with restarts of Zed in-between. The documentation and what Zed tries to configu…

Text threads include no tooling. They are plain markdown texts you can freely edit (including llm's responses) so you can fix small stuff yourself without annoying, context-polluting back and forths with the llm, at the potential cost of possible caching optimisations.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by haute_cuisine »

yewenjie wrote: post #297
onehair wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The truly pluggable editor is emacs. I too spent months trying out neovim, then emacs, then finding helix. Spent a year on helix, then zed because I would rather have something more complete, and brought with me all i could of helix modal editing. But emacs. Emacs is the one that can truly become anything you like. And with lsp and treesitter being finally in it. I've finally came to my senses and started building my…

I wish some radical team just says fuck yes, we're gonna make Emacs fast and actually accomplishes it. It's definitely easier with LLMs now, but still considerably hard.

Epsilon is fast emacs

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by dewey »

agrippanux wrote: post #353

I love Zed but this has all the hallmarks of something being totally rushed out the door. It works off the Claude Code SDK, which mean it doesn't support many of the built in slash commands - it doesn't support /compact, which is 100% necessary because when you use this implementation enough, you'll eventually get a "Prompt too long" error message with no ability to do anything about it. Since you can't see how far y…

The Agent Model came out very recently, I’ve been following the GitHub issue over the past days and you can see it was rushed out. But I don’t see anything wrong with that, many AI topics are being rushed out and adding slash commands and other small things are very small things to add once the foundation is there.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by 3uler »

scottcorgan wrote: post #192
ppeetteerr wrote: post #141

I love Zed and I'm glad you now have native support for Claude. I previously ran it using the instructions in this post: https://benswift.me/blog/2025/07/23/running-claude-code-with... One thing that still suffers is AI autocomplete. While I tried Zed's own solution and supermaven (now part of Cursor), I still find Cursor's AI autocomplete and predictions much more accurate (even pulling up a file via search is more…

I'll third this. AI autocomplete is THE most efficient and helpful feature of Cursor, not the agents.

I feel like this is the big divide, some people have no use for agents and swear by autocomplete. Others find the autocomplete a little annoying/not that useful and swear by agents.

For me my aha moment came with Claude Code and Sonnet 4. Before that AI coding was more of a novelty than actually useful.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by conartist6 »

yewenjie wrote: post #297
onehair wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The truly pluggable editor is emacs. I too spent months trying out neovim, then emacs, then finding helix. Spent a year on helix, then zed because I would rather have something more complete, and brought with me all i could of helix modal editing. But emacs. Emacs is the one that can truly become anything you like. And with lsp and treesitter being finally in it. I've finally came to my senses and started building my…

I wish some radical team just says fuck yes, we're gonna make Emacs fast and actually accomplishes it. It's definitely easier with LLMs now, but still considerably hard.

LLMs don't make it any easier at all.

But the team is out there ; )

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by arianvanp »

llbbdd wrote: post #362
arianvanp wrote: post #360

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not out of topic. We're discussing the Zed editor. Their whole marketing ploy is "we are not electron", "we are rust", "we are native", "we are not slow" alternative to VScode. This is literally their whole distinguishing feature and people are switching because of it and just it.

It is! If the thing runs like shit, say it runs like shit. Say it's native or not, like every topic title and comment on HN until we weep of boredom. I know it's rust! everything is rust here! Is there any other reason I should care? Are we a forum for discussing interesting technology or are we a forum for discussing alternatives to VSCode? And again, who is switching? People shipping products or HN posters with the…

People who install zed are switching. I don't understand what you're trying to "get" at. You're complaining about people talking about Zed in a topic about Zed.

Zed seems to have been hugely succesful recently and their only real distinguishing feature is "fast from the ground up". It has less features than vscode. Worse AI features than Cursor. but people seem to love it nonetheless.

Turns out there is a market for people fed up with VScode-derivatives.

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