Comment by ifwinterco

Claude code is a decent harness but then you have to use Anthropic models, which are good but no longer the best bang for the buck.

In particular Haiku 4.5 is rubbish, Anthropic don’t have anything in the cheap/fast part of the market.

For people fortunate enough to still be on a subscription instead of per-token billing this is less relevant, but their time will come.

The cursor model is quite nice because it allows you to switch between cheap and expensive models for different tasks