Claude code doesn’t need magic prompts. It’s not perfect but holy moly is it good, when it’s working it just one shots things for you. It’s just EXPENSIVE. I’ve spent 30$ in tokens on it this week.
Cursor’s “chat with your codebase” is a funny joke compared to Claude Code. Ask it questions, have it figure things out.
I had it analyze the openAPI schema and the backend that is serving the schema for the API I’m writing and write end to end tests for the API. Then I did my normal meetings and it was done with huge chunks of it, it had run the code locally and tested against the actual endpoints to understand if the end to end tests were working or it had found a bug. Then it fixed the bugs it found in the backend codebase. My prompt: “write me end to end tests against my openAPI schema”
That was it. 30$ in tokens later, pressing enter a bunch of times to approve its use of curl, sed, etc…
Cursor’s “chat with your codebase” is a funny joke compared to Claude Code. Ask it questions, have it figure things out.
I had it analyze the openAPI schema and the backend that is serving the schema for the API I’m writing and write end to end tests for the API. Then I did my normal meetings and it was done with huge chunks of it, it had run the code locally and tested against the actual endpoints to understand if the end to end tests were working or it had found a bug. Then it fixed the bugs it found in the backend codebase. My prompt: “write me end to end tests against my openAPI schema”
That was it. 30$ in tokens later, pressing enter a bunch of times to approve its use of curl, sed, etc…