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Comment by mirekrusin | Hacker News Reader

Does Zed have "I work for corp where ie. only github copilot is allowed, I don't want free auto completions or anything that sends code to 3rd party" flag?

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Yes you can disable Zed AI and connect to Github Copilot through the LLM Providers UI

Can you now? I've tried to keep "AI" machine assist features on, but disable "Zed AI" provider, keeping only non-cloud LLMs as an option.

Last time I checked (about half an year ago) it was hardcoded and unconditional, so disabling it required a patch.

https://zed.dev/business

You need to create and sign into a Zed account to use their prediction AI (Zeta) in order to get 2000 free predictions.

https://zed.dev/docs/ai/edit-prediction

You can also download the same model and run it locally without data leaving your machine, the Zed tram released it as open weights: https://huggingface.co/zed-industries/zeta-2

That's all great (genuine), however my concern is less around "I can do X", more around "I can guarantee it cannot do Y" – ideally in one, global, obvious place.

At the moment it seems it's great for personal development and development in environments where concerns around IP are less of an issue.

It's not so clear how to use it in corporation context where you'd be in breach of employment contract accidentally because defaults mean sending confidential IP to 3rd parties.

Or you can use any other local model you already have.

Yes, Zed was first harness where you could seriously use local models. The issue is more about not having to check so many options to make sure it's all local. You can set up local model for chat but your auto completions will still be sending your code remotely.

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