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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: 0.001s | 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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iamsaitam ◴[03 Sep 25 19:38 UTC] No.45119652[source]▶
and then loses by not having plugin support
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1. nextaccountic ◴[03 Sep 25 19:42 UTC] No.45119680[source]▶
It does have extensions, but they are much more limited. In particular they can't define UI elements inside buffers, so you can't replicate something with rich UI like the Git integration in an extension.