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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

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677 points meetpateltech | 3 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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scottcorgan ◴[03 Sep 25 18:37 UTC] No.45119067[source]▶
I'll third this. AI autocomplete is THE most efficient and helpful feature of Cursor, not the agents.
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mac-monet ◴[04 Sep 25 02:12 UTC] No.45122731[source]▶
I have recently been using Zed much more than cursor. However, the autocomplete is literally the only thing missing, and when dealing with refactors or code with tons of boilerplate, its just unbeatable. Eagerly awaiting a better autocomplete model and I can finally ditch Cursor.
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andreygrehov ◴[04 Sep 25 03:15 UTC] No.45123145[source]▶
Out of curiosity, why not just stick to Cursor instead?
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1. barkerja ◴[04 Sep 25 03:48 UTC] No.45123348[source]▶
For me, the editor is still the most important component of my tooling. The AI features are secondary to my needs/wants when it comes to an editor.

Zed is hitting all the checkboxes when it comes to performance and user experience (yeah, I care about that in my editor).

I'm not a hardcore user of AI, but I do make use of Zed's inline suggestions and occasional use of Opus 4.1 through my Zed subscription.

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2. kar1181 ◴[04 Sep 25 07:11 UTC] No.45124459[source]▶
This is it, in terms of pure text editing zed is the best GUI land editor I've used.

Not quite there with emacs/vim but it's a much more accessible environment and more convenient for typical workloads.

3. dkersten ◴[04 Sep 25 08:56 UTC] No.45125139[source]▶
I agree. I used to use vscode, then switched to Zed and used it for over a year (without AI). In February of this year, I started using Cursor to try out the AI features and I realised I really hated vscode now. Once Zed shipped agent mode, I switched back, and haven’t looked back. I very strongly never want to use vscode again.