Also, Trae being $10 for more requests makes Cursor far less appealing to me.
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.
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?
Using my own API tokens is effectively equivalent to "burn mode" when using Zed's subscription model.
At the current pricing, I value my time more than these costs and maintaining context can save a lot of time as opposed to maximizing context vs cost.