Their landing page via Safari manages to crash my iPhone 11 Pro repeatedly, namely crashing Safari but also another app and the Bluetooth connections - had not seen that before so they are clearly innovative.
Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
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Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
#292I 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…
You can use a local model! It's in Settings in a Thread and you can select Ollama.
Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
#293Earlier quoted context omitted.
I begrudgingly gave up vim mode in vscode a few years ago, because that seemed to make it so much more sluggish.
Yeah it hooks into some blocking event that gets called on every keypress. At least that's how it worked last time I tried it many years ago. Very sluggish. Fortunately standard editing shortcuts like Ctrl-D, Ctrl-left/right, etc. replace 99% of Vim "magic" and are way easier to remember and use.
No offense, but if you think ctrl-shortcuts are easier to use you don’t really get the appeal of vim
Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
#294I 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…
There's an active PR providing inline edit completions via Ollama: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/33616
Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. When a press a character key on my keyboard, it should appear in my editor immediately. All other IDE features like auto-completion happen asynchronously.
Are you telling me that it was a delay when you type in vscode? If so, either your configuration or computer is doing something wrong
The thing their computer might be doing wrong is just being a slightly older budget laptop, which is not a particularly rare setup.
Just try to use vscode on a ~500 dollar laptop from 2019 or something
Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not rare at all. It's more common than not for people developing on monitors.
That's wild to me. That's something I don't think I can ever go back to at this point.
Do you use macOS? Fonts look great on Linux with hinting and subpixel rendering at 1440p. I could never use macOS with such a setup.
Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, I've fantasized about an editor with a truly pluggable editing model which is decoupled from the other parts. Yi was kind of designed like this, I believe. You could compile in an emacs-like model, a vim-like model, or presumably make your own model. I've used Helix and Kakoune in addition to Emacs and Vim, but dealing with the limitations/featureset/plugin treadmill gets a little tiring. I have been followi…
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.
Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll third this. AI autocomplete is THE most efficient and helpful feature of Cursor, not the agents.
Same sentiment for me. I barely use the agent, but love their autocomplete. Though I sometimes hear people say that GH Copilot has largely caught up on this front. Can anyone speak to that? I haven’t compared them recently. If performance were equal, I’d strongly consider going back to GH Copilot just because I don’t love my main IDE being a fork. I occasionally encounter IDE-level bugs in Cursor that are unrelated t…
They haven’t. They had time to catch up, but they didn’t. They recently switched their auto complete model from 4o-mini to 4.1-mini. It’s not smarter at predicting what you are trying to do. Nothing magical like last year experience on Cursor (I haven’t tested lately, so it might be even better now).
I heard Windsurf is quite good and the closest to Cursor magic, available on Windsurf free plan (unlimited autocomplete). I should give that a try.
Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
#299Bnbn
Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
#300I 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 wonder if Augment [1] are working on a Zed plugin.
I've been using Augment for more than a year in Jetbrains IDEs, and been very impressed by it, both the autocomplete and the Cursor-style agent. I've looked at Cursor and couldn't figure out why anyone needed to use a dedicated IDE when Augment exists as a plugin. Colleagues who have used Cursor have switched to Augment and say it's better.
Seems to me like Augment is an AI tool flying under most people's radar; not sure why it's not all over Hacker News.