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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 throwawa14223 »

stavros wrote: post #63
Sparkle-san wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just disable it. It seems like they've made is as simple as possible to do so while also being realistic about what it takes to make a successful (read: profitable) IDE the year 2025.

I've found that the sort of people who complain about AI or cryptocurrency don't care if it can be disabled. The mere fact that such functionality exists taints the product for them. I can't say I understand the reasons (I like AI functionality), but that's what I've noticed.

Yes. I don't want to give support or market share to a company that is using AI as it is an unethical technology.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by throwawa14223 »

maleldil wrote: post #7
throwawa14223 wrote: post #4

Zed used to be a good editor but it is increasingly LLM infested.

How does the existence of LLM features impact the quality of the rest of the editor? It's a single toggle to disable everything [1]. [1] https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

The inclusion of an unethical tech is a deal breaker.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by throwawa14223 »

suck-my-spez wrote: post #8
throwawa14223 wrote: post #4

Zed used to be a good editor but it is increasingly LLM infested.

One line fix for you… https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

Does that button cause them to cease using LLM technology? My objection is on ethical grounds.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by gazpachotron »

veber-alex wrote: post #164
trashface wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do people really need that with modern computers? My computer is 10 years old and I just restarted VS in the last project I was working on. It was about 4-5 seconds before I could edit the text, which doesn't seem long. And I have 17GB available memory. Anyway it doesn't matter because I just don't restart VSCode that much. I do open projects in new windows and those can get slow, but the slow ones are mostly just ru…

I agree with you. I tried Zed several times and I just don't see the point. The main issues with VScode over something like the Jetbrains IDEs is that language servers are just not as powerful or as integrated to the IDE as the Jetbrains solution can be and Zed does nothing to solve it. I don't think it being a native app offers much added value.

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Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by woodson »

kilohotel wrote: post #292
hajile wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But that doesn't work for inline edit predictions, right?

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by tymscar »

fabbbbb wrote: post #291

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.

Honestly, I’d love to know why that happens. Can you take a look at the logs? On Mac, you can do it through the Console app, and on Linux, through idevicesyslog.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by stavros »

throwawa14223 wrote: post #301
stavros wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've found that the sort of people who complain about AI or cryptocurrency don't care if it can be disabled. The mere fact that such functionality exists taints the product for them. I can't say I understand the reasons (I like AI functionality), but that's what I've noticed.

Yes. I don't want to give support or market share to a company that is using AI as it is an unethical technology.

Do you also refuse to use search engines, cars, phones, computers, etc? Or by "AI" do you specifically mean LLMs?

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by jackhuman »

Zed has really good vim bindings + mix of native shortcuts making a powerful workflow. The window management keyboard shortcuts are great and is the main reason I switched from some vscode use. Its kind of what I wanted neovim + tmux to be with less work and setup.

Zed doesn’t have file delete undo and I found the AI autocomplete to be so bad I had to turn it off. I still use vscode for work. Zed is kind of in a purgatory state where its lacking in way to be a main for many folks but its close. Just the AI focus is sadly the best way for it to keep investments going, but are really not the top things I think Zed needs.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by diss »

cnqso wrote: post #162
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…

What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app

This is simply not true… that’s the problem. As much as I like Zed, using it for the sake of not being an electron app doesn’t make any sense when Cursor’s edit prediction adds so much value. I’m not starved of resources and can run Cursor just fine – as far as Electron apps go VS Code is great, performant enough. I value productivity. I’ll very happily drop Cursor for Zed the second edit prediction is comparable. I’m eagerly waiting.

Re: Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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Post by phist_mcgee »

jackhuman wrote: post #308

Zed has really good vim bindings + mix of native shortcuts making a powerful workflow. The window management keyboard shortcuts are great and is the main reason I switched from some vscode use. Its kind of what I wanted neovim + tmux to be with less work and setup. Zed doesn’t have file delete undo and I found the AI autocomplete to be so bad I had to turn it off. I still use vscode for work. Zed is kind of in a purg…

I wish it natively supported vimrc, I dislike having to rewrite all my bindings in zed format.
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