Reading all these glowing reviews of Claude Code, I still get the feeling that either everyone’s been paid off or it’s just the die-hard fans of terminal windows and editors like Emacs and Vim. Using the terminal is right up their alley—it’s in their DNA.
Every time I read comments saying Claude Code is far better than Cursor, I fire it up, pay for a subscription, and run it on a large, complex TypeScript codebase. First, the whole process takes a hell of a lot of time. Second, the learning curve is steep: you have to work through the terminal and type commands.
And the outcome is exactly the same as with the Claude that’s built into Cursor—only slower, less clear, and the generated code is harder to review afterward. I don’t know… At this point my only impression is that all those influencers in the comments are either sponsored, or they’ve already shelled out their $200 and are now defending their choice. Or they simply haven’t used Cursor enough to figure out how to get the most out of it.
I still can’t see any real advantage to Claude Code, other than supposedly higher limits. I don’t get it. I’ve already paid for Claude Code, and I’m also paying for Cursor Pro, which is another $200, but I’m more productive with Cursor so far.
I’ve been programming for 18 years, write a ton of code every single day, and I can say Cursor gives me more. I switch between Gemini 2.5 Pro—when I need to handle tasks with a big, long context—and Claude 4.0 for routine stuff.
So no one has convinced me yet, and I haven’t seen any other benefit. Maybe later… I don’t know.
Every time I read comments saying Claude Code is far better than Cursor, I fire it up, pay for a subscription, and run it on a large, complex TypeScript codebase. First, the whole process takes a hell of a lot of time. Second, the learning curve is steep: you have to work through the terminal and type commands.
And the outcome is exactly the same as with the Claude that’s built into Cursor—only slower, less clear, and the generated code is harder to review afterward. I don’t know… At this point my only impression is that all those influencers in the comments are either sponsored, or they’ve already shelled out their $200 and are now defending their choice. Or they simply haven’t used Cursor enough to figure out how to get the most out of it.
I still can’t see any real advantage to Claude Code, other than supposedly higher limits. I don’t get it. I’ve already paid for Claude Code, and I’m also paying for Cursor Pro, which is another $200, but I’m more productive with Cursor so far.
I’ve been programming for 18 years, write a ton of code every single day, and I can say Cursor gives me more. I switch between Gemini 2.5 Pro—when I need to handle tasks with a big, long context—and Claude 4.0 for routine stuff.
So no one has convinced me yet, and I haven’t seen any other benefit. Maybe later… I don’t know.