Comment by wellthisisgreat

hey can you explain the appeal of Claude Code vs Cursor?

I know the context window part and Cursor RAG-ing it, but isn't IDE integration a a true force multiplier?

Or does Claude Code do something similar with "send to chat" / smart (Cursor's TAB feature) autocomplete etc.?

I fired it up but it seemed like just Claude in terminal with a lot more manual copy-pasting expected?

I tried all the usual suspects in AI-assisted programming, and Cursor's TAB is too good to give up vs Roo / Cline.

I do agree Claude's the best for programming so would love to use it full-featured version.