8 engineers on Hacker News describe using Zed first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“For coding, I mostly use Zed. I like the traditional development environment and tooling”
endorse · personal · thibsrn · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At work I use Zed with a corporate claude subscription and it's a good setup.”
endorse · production · grep_name · 2026-11-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Zed for about a month and I'm very happy with performance the features.”
endorse · personal · 0.1 yr · srfrog · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I still use zed daily and I hope the team can keep working on it for a long time.”
endorse · personal · isaacimagine · 2025-05-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using Zed as my code editor, but with the AI features disabled.”
neutral · personal · guhcampos · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use the Zed IDE with Opus 5.5 pro subscription.”
neutral · personal · flaburgan · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using layered development techniques like the parent says even with frontier models, just one agent at a time with Zed.”
neutral · personal · Abishek_Muthian · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Zed for some time now... so far I've been able to disable all of the AI interactions”
neutral · personal · tytho · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?