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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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677 points meetpateltech | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ppeetteerr ◴[03 Sep 25 17:35 UTC] No.45118464[source]▶
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 accurate in Cursor).

I am glad to hear that Zed got a round of funding. https://zed.dev/blog/sequoia-backs-zed This will go a long way to creating real competition to Cursor in the form of a quality IDE not built on VSCode

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cnqso ◴[03 Sep 25 18:09 UTC] No.45118799[source]▶
What Zed lacks in code generation quality it makes up for in not-being-an-Electron-app
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TiredOfLife ◴[03 Sep 25 19:12 UTC] No.45119433[source]▶
Zed includes node.js runtime and 100s of megabytes of javascript. It is essentially Electron.
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1. beckler ◴[03 Sep 25 19:28 UTC] No.45119568[source]▶
I'm gonna need you to back that claim up dawg, because the only thing I see the node runtime used for, is for when the user loads a js project.

then it's basically just a proxy for node/npm afaik.