[giancarlostoro]

> Looking at the prompts op has shared, I'd recommend more aggressively managing/trimming the context. In general you don't give the agent a new task without /clearing the context before. This will enable the agent to be more focused on the new task, and decrease its bias (if eg. reviewing changes it has made previously).

My workflow for any IDE, including Visual Studio 2022 w/ CoPilot, JetBrains AI, and now Zed w/ Claude Code baked in is to start a new convo altogether when I'm doing something different, or changing up my initial instructions. It works way better. People are used to keeping a window until the model loses its mind on apps like ChatGPT, but for code, the context Window gets packed a lot sooner (remember the tools are sending some code over too), so you need to start over or it starts getting confused much sooner.

[nadis]

I've been meaning to try Zed but haven't gotten into it yet; it felt hard to justify switching IDEs when I just got into a working flow with VS Code + Claude Code CLI. How are you finding it? I'm assuming positive if that's your core IDE now but would love to hear more about the experience you've had so far.

[lukaslalinsky]

If you are Claude Code user, you will likely not enjoy the version integrated into Zed. Many things are missing, for example, no slash commands. I use Zed, but still run Claude Code in the terminal. As an editor, Zed is excellent, especially as a Vim replacement.

[nadis]

Oh interesting, that’s good to know. Thank you. I might try that combination - I like using the Claude Code CLI so hopefully less of a painful transition.

[giancarlostoro]

I guess I am a weirdo because I never used Claude Code until Zed added it. At least Zed has a built in terminal emulator to boot.