[singhrac]

I think we don’t talk enough about tab completion model quality. Recently Copilot’s model got a lot better (probably trying to catch up to Cursor) but I feel like there’s still so much room here (and I assume Zeds is worse from your description).

Smart context / big context is a really interesting question, I’m kind of surprised Google isn’t building here given how much effort they’ve put into big context (they have Jules and Gemini CLI but no tab completion UX).

On further thought I think one of the big 3 (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic) should partner (ideally not buy) with Zed to get a foothold.

[dgunay]

For Copilot the quality of the tab complete is less of an issue for me than the fact that it is often very slow, or doesn't trigger at all when I would expect it to. I'll sit there feeling like an idiot for 10 seconds and then glance at the bottom bar to discover that it's not even doing inference, and have to randomly move the cursor, or delete and retype code until it finally works.

[the_duke]

I found Copilot tab completion completion to be VERY slow in Zed, for some reason.

It's fast in neovim.

Maybe they artificially slow down non-official clients somehow? (official neovim plugin, VS Code)

[the_duke]

I have the opposite experience, tab completion by Copilot just got significantly worse for me recently (the last week or so), both for Rust and Python code.