I stopped using Cursor once Zed released their agent mode. Cursor consistently leaks memory for me even with all extensions removed, Zed is much lighter weight and in my personal opinion just a better editor.
Also, Trae being $10 for more requests makes Cursor far less appealing to me.
The other day, I was repairing a raidz2 cluster. Power instability during a heavy / long term write operation caused problems resembling defective drives and corrupted metadata all over the drives. I came up with a strategy to repair it but I needed some code which was pretty straightforward.
Rust is easier for me than shell scripting so I started writing what I needed and remembered Zed added agent mode. I decided to give it a shot. I had it use Claude 4 with my api tokens.
It wrote the entire program, tested it, debugged it. It made some bad assumptions and I just steered it towards what I needed. By the end of about an hour, I had my complete fix plus an entire ZFS management layer in Rust.
It did cost $11, but that is a drop in the bucket for time saved. I was impressed.
Just sharing this because I got real and measured value recently that is way beyond the widely shared experience.
Yeah, I’m impressed with it too. Sure there are things that can still be improved, especially the tab completion, but I’m very happy with how well agent mode works over all!
As an aside: $11 for an hour of Claude 4 seems expensive? I’ve been using Claude 4 (through a Zed Pro subscription, not with my own keys) and I haven’t hit the subscription limits yet. Were you using burn mode, or?
Funny you say that -- my month renews in a few days and in that time I used ~350 messages. But yesterday I went through 200 messages with burn mode. So, yeah, I get it now! It very much depends on what I'm doing. Normally, I give it the context as much as I can (tag the files I want it to work with) and it generally gets it done in a few messages. However, yesterday, I didn't tell it where to find things (I wanted it to do sweeping changes across the project - configuration related refactoring) and it had to use a lot of tools to find things, and wow did it burn through credits...
Also, Trae being $10 for more requests makes Cursor far less appealing to me.