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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 rolisz »

hajile wrote: post #193
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 was somewhat surprised to find that Zed still doesn't have a way to add your own local autocomplete AI using something like Ollama. Something like Qwen 2.5 coder at a tiny 1.5b parameters will work just fine for the stuff that I want. It runs fast and works when I'm between internet connections too. I'd also like to see a company like Zed allow me to buy a license of their autocomplete AI model to run locally rathe…

> I'd also pay for something in the 10-15b parameter range that used more limited training data focused almost entirely on programming documentation and books along with professional business writing.

Unfortunately, pretraining on a lot of data (~everything they can get their hands on) is needed to give current LLMs their "intelligence" (for whatever definition of intelligence). Using less training data doesn't work as well for now. There definitely not enough programming and business writing to train a good model only on that.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by petcat »

pandemic_region wrote: post #236

I wish the release notes of Zed would contain less AI.*, and more focus on getting the core editor capabilities completed. I'm a fan though, don't get me wrong.

They've been chasing nothing but AI crap for months. Maybe a year. They've stopped improving the core editor completely.

I'm getting ready to just switch back to Sublime Text

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by sexyman48 »

stavros wrote: post #195
microflash wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do care that it can be disabled. My problem with such functionality is that it becomes the sole focus of the development team, drifting their attention away from improving core experiences, such as language and plugin support, polishing ergonomics, and pruning papercuts.

The focus of the team is gone. Their target now is not to make a great product, but to make an engaging product that makes money however they can. The AI is a symptom of the problem. If it weren't AI, it would be something else.

make an engaging product that makes money however they can.

Is that not what your employer does?

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by stavros »

sexyman48 wrote: post #243
stavros wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The focus of the team is gone. Their target now is not to make a great product, but to make an engaging product that makes money however they can. The AI is a symptom of the problem. If it weren't AI, it would be something else.

make an engaging product that makes money however they can. Is that not what your employer does?

It is, because they're VC-funded.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by veber-alex »

rvnx wrote: post #230
veber-alex wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So...nothing.

I think you do not understand the value proposition of Zed. It is an editor made for people who are used to double-clicking individual files rather than opening a folder in VS Code, so they close and open their editor dozens or even hundreds of times per day. Let's say VS Code takes 5 seconds to boot. Some programmers may argue: "yes, I spend 3 hours on a project or just leave it open overnight, so 5 seconds per week…

You are right. I don't understand.

How can any software developer work when they need to open and close 4 files per minute? I have never met or heard of anyone working like this.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by conartist6 »

user432678 wrote: post #137
conartist6 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me either. I thought by now it would be standard UX everywhere, but that is very much not so.

Sublime Merge comes to mind, but I used it briefly before switching to JetBrains products.

Yeah, no, I tried that thinking it was going to be the JetBrains merge as a standalone product and it simply does not have the three-way sauce. Sublime doesn't even offer any way I can view a live base->left or base->right view as I do the merge does it?

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by dcre »

ricardobeat wrote: post #214
unshavedyak wrote: post #111

I want to try Zed but the Helix mode seems quite young. Vim mode sounds good, but i just can't move away from Helix mode. (oh and of course, my own modifications to Helix's input config) My difficulty in finding editors that fit my desired input scheme kinda reminds me of the old pre-LSP days. Where you'd chose an editor based on it's language features. I wonder if we need some sort of common editor interface to allo…

Helix itself seems quite young - and first time I’m hearing of it.

It’s about 4 years old, twice as old as Zed!

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by sexyman48 »

robinhood wrote: post #212
veber-alex wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So...nothing.

Your comment is as insulting as it is indicative of a complete lack of knowledge about the world of editors and software development in general.

A complete lack of knowledge? At least GP understood 90% of his peers don't know vscode is built on a browser framework, and wouldn't care.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by jamesgeck0 »

jsheard wrote: post #47
sapiogram wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their font rendering looks awful on non-high dpi displays, and the devs don't seem to care at all. https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7992

That figures, their lead platform was the Mac where HiDPI is totally ubiquitous, so their renderer probably has no provisions for subpixel font rendering.

It's frustrating because even on macOS, every other text editor looks better on a 1440p display.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by audunw »

yonisto wrote: post #237

I know it is not popular around here, but until Zed gets a windows version: Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead

There is a Windows version if you're willing to use unofficial builds. I've been using it successfully for a few weeks. There's a few more rough corners than in the official Mac/Linux version, but it's usable.
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