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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?

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The cost came from the context size and repeated queries without changing context. It adds up fast.

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.

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...

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