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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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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. komali2 ◴[04 Sep 25 12:56 UTC] No.45126726[source]▶
I'm in the same boat but a neovim/cursor user. I desperately wish there was a package I could use in nvim that matched the multiline, file-aware autocomplete feature of Cursor. Of course I've tried supermaven, copilot etc, but I've only ever gotten those to work as in-line completions. They can do multiline but only from where my cursor is. What I love about Cursor is that I can spam tab and make a quick change across a whole file. Plus its suggestions are far faster and far better than the alternative.

That said, vscode's UX sucks ass to me. I believe it's the best UX for people that want a "good enough and just works" editor, but I'm an emacs/vim (yes both) guy and I don't like taking my hands off the keyboard ever. Vscode just doesn't have a good keyboard only workflow with vim bindings like emacs and nvim do.