If you switch to Codex you will get a lot of tokens for $200, enough to more consistently use high reasoning as well. Cursor is simply far more expensive so you end up using less or using dumber models.
Claude Code is overrated as it uses many of its features and modalities to compensate for model shortcomings that are not as necessary for steering state of the art models like GPT 5.2
Claude Code is overrated as it uses many of its features and modalities to compensate for model shortcomings that are not as necessary for steering state of the art models like GPT 5.2