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0 pointsAbishek_Muthian2mo ago0 comments

I actually moved to Zed for AI, Claude integration is seamless and the IDE is so fast and crisp. I can use what ever agent I want, when I need them instead of being asked to use Copilot.

Except for few language related extensions, I don't have any other extensions on Zed. Which means I worry less about which of those extensions will be sold off to a malware developer.

I had more issues with official extensions on VSCode (looking at you flutter) than not having any extension on Zed and having to rely on the terminal (which feels much closer to the system than it did on VSCode).

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barrenko2mo ago

Could you provide some detail on how you use it (the AI features)?

Abishek_MuthianOP2mo ago

I just have a minimalist setup.

Configuration -

In external agents - I have Calude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and a custom agent for Qwen Coder via Llama.cpp [1]

In MCP - I have fetch, brave-search, puppeteer

In LLM Providers - I have configured Llama.cpp, LMStudio and OpenAI (Zed Agent can access models from any of these providers).

Workflow -

When I need LLM assist I mostly use just Claude Code for specific tasks, with thorough scaffolding. One major drawback in using external agents on Zed is that they don't support history[2], Which doesn't impact me much as I use Claude just for individual tasks. I'm not really sure on how well Zed works for someone who 'vibecodes' entire project.

[1] https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents

[2] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37074

barrenko2mo ago

Thank you!

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0 pointsAbishek_Muthian2mo ago0 comments

I actually moved to Zed for AI, Claude integration is seamless and the IDE is so fast and crisp. I can use what ever agent I want, when I need them instead of being asked to use Copilot.

Except for few language related extensions, I don't have any other extensions on Zed. Which means I worry less about which of those extensions will be sold off to a malware developer.

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barrenko2mo ago

Could you provide some detail on how you use it (the AI features)?

Abishek_MuthianOP2mo ago

I just have a minimalist setup.

Configuration -

In external agents - I have Calude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and a custom agent for Qwen Coder via Llama.cpp [1]

In MCP - I have fetch, brave-search, puppeteer

In LLM Providers - I have configured Llama.cpp, LMStudio and OpenAI (Zed Agent can access models from any of these providers).

Workflow -

[1] https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents

[2] https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/37074

barrenko2mo ago

Thank you!

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