I use zed and claude code side by side right now. I haven't tried out the newly released assisted agent mode with Zed.

Yes Opus has been good with instruction following and same with Gemini for 2nd opinions and brainstorming.

They're not perfect but definitely I see plenty of value in both tools as far as they are reliable services.

I don't like the cloud based functioning of the models as the experience is extremely flaky and not reliable. I've gound OpenAI Codex and the models in codex too be more reliable in responses and consistency of the quality service.

I would still prefer to have a fully locally hosted equivalent of what ever the state of the art coding assisstant models to speed up work.

That will take time though as in with every technological evolution. We will be stuck with time sharing for sometime haha. Until the resource aspect of this technology scales and economizes to become ubiquitous.