It's great that Zed adding this very useful feature, but isn't this effectively cannibalize their own AI subscription plans? Why pay zed $20 when you already pay for claude code and can use it in the assistant panel? You might still want the edit prediction feature, but then why pay zed $20 when you can pay $10 github copilot and can use it to power zed's edit prediction feature?

It’s also great that they’re willing to risk that, in the name of a potentially better user experience. That’s what gets them to win in the long run, not building another walled garden.

Could be cheaper, maybe?

I have been using zed a fair bit with clause api and the 50 free prompts a month that zed provide on the free plan works out to roughly $8 for an equivalent amount of code using the claude api.

But no idea how it compares to the subscription plan.