[HN Gopher] Codex Is Live in Zed
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       Codex Is Live in Zed
        
       Author : meetpateltech
       Score  : 148 points
       Date   : 2025-10-16 15:36 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | mosselman wrote:
       | I'd wish a better model or system would go live for the inline
       | suggestions. The Zed ones are so trash compared to Cursor's it is
       | just laughable.
       | 
       | An example is that when I have a module like
       | Namespace::SuperAbcModule in a file at
       | namespace/super_abc_module.rb and I rename the file to
       | namespace/super_module.rb, Cursor will immediately suggest to
       | change the module name to `Namespace::SuperModule`, Zed won't.
       | 
       | Also Cursor will suggest updates to lines throughout a file
       | whereas Zed sometimes doesn't even look ahead 1-2 lines.
       | 
       | Having Claude Code and Codex built into the sidebar is hardly
       | better than having them running in a terminal. I wish they'd
       | invested all this time and effort improving the inline
       | suggestions.
        
         | hiccuphippo wrote:
         | Why is that something AI has to do? PhpStorm does this, without
         | Ai, since forever ago. And updates references everywhere, even
         | inside strings or doc comments.
        
           | mosselman wrote:
           | Firstly, I don't care what tech does this, as long as I can
           | get good suggestions.
           | 
           | Secondly, it was just one example that came to me from
           | comparing this the other day. You could compile a long list
           | of examples where Cursor gives better completions than Zed
           | does.
        
         | _neil wrote:
         | Agreed. Zed is my daily driver and I love it, but the
         | autocomplete is not good. I end up disabling AI altogether.
        
         | rpearl wrote:
         | I otherwise like Zed way more than the vscode-derivatives but
         | yeah, the edit predictions are just not even close. And it's
         | laggier feeling despite the lower quality.
        
         | ChadMoran wrote:
         | This is what holds me back from Zed.
        
         | WD-42 wrote:
         | Right click on the file in the project tree -> rename will
         | rename references. Or in the code right click -> rename symbol.
         | Not sure why you need to bring AI into it.
        
         | kodisha wrote:
         | Yup true, replying to increase visibility in case Zed team is
         | looking at this post. Love the editor otherwise.
        
       | aaronSong wrote:
       | Is it just a GUI service for codex?
        
         | aaronSong wrote:
         | I like how it integrated it
        
         | JamesSwift wrote:
         | Zed has a generic interface to agents (ACP). This is a bridge
         | between the ACP api and the codex api so that it integrates
         | cleanly inside Zed in mostly the same way the other non-codex
         | supported agents do
        
       | sreekanth850 wrote:
       | Product video is more saying about the FPS.
        
         | furyofantares wrote:
         | I watched the video in the linked post and I don't think it
         | said anything about the FPS.
        
       | bicx wrote:
       | Cool. If Zed supported git worktree diff highlighting, I'd be
       | using it.
        
         | LVB wrote:
         | What do you mean exactly? Diffs between multiple worktrees?
         | I've found the current diff view fairly useful.
        
         | CjHuber wrote:
         | For me it's the missing Jupyter support that's preventing me
         | from switching
        
       | bradgessler wrote:
       | I love that this was completely overshadowed by "Zed works in
       | Windows!"
       | 
       | This team ships so much that if they sold an LTS product, it
       | means they'd support the release for 24 hours.
        
       | the_duke wrote:
       | Let's hope agent CLIs adopt the ACP protocol, instead of having
       | to do hacky shims.
        
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