“claude is great for logic, but cursor sees my entire codebase. with cursor, it feels less like chatting with AI and more like pair-programming with someone who knows my project”
“Looking forward if Grok 4.7 is Sol-esq, and there is a composer 2.5 replacement like Luna, and Grok 4.6 stays decent for the cost, the cursor subscription will basically be identical on value to Codex with much better cloud agents and better multi-api support.”
“What Cursor has is millions of people with it installed and a decade of habit around an editor. Worth a lot of money, and not the same thing as being the best tool.”
“The benefit is smaller for cursor models though. So it all depends on which model you are using and how much context the new agent needs to pick up. It's really hard to tell which strategy is better because there are so many variables.”
“They're agents are fast and you get a hella amount of usage with cursor. Like you can honestly build an entire site vibe coding using ultra. It's hella good now.”
“I really like Claude Code, but I miss Cursor’s visual editing workflow where I can click on the actual UI in the browser and directly tweak things like spacing, sizing, styles, etc. instead of describing every little change in chat.”
“The workflows, automatic model selection, concise engineering language tend to drive users to love it. Adoption and retention drive the value of the company and make it valuable as an acquisition on a "fundamentals" basis.”
“On the frustrating other hand, Cursor is the absolute best LLM IDE by such a ridiculously wide margin. Everything else feels so broken and ramshackle in comparison.My employer let us evaulate all the big providers for a month each before having a vote on which one we'd like to keep.”
“But they rotted faster than a human can maintain them, and using agents directly to maintain them just leads to bloat and more drift.So that is what we set out to solve.Blume is a desktop app that sits next to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. It reads your agents' context setup (skills, rules, docs) and local session files.”
“what makes them valuable is the agentic editing workflow, it doesn't just autocomplete lines, it understands your whole codebase and can jump between files to implement features. you can ask it to refactor something across your project and it'll figure out which files need changing without you holding its hand”
“I have set up Opencode Go as a fallback and to try out certain cheap models. Made a tiny extension for myself to quickly toggle the OpenAI key on and off (https://gitlab.com/flipswitchingmonkey/cursor-toggle-openai)”
“Cursor runs much better and doesn’t lag and have hanging like codex from my experience. Their speed is also much faster and I get more done with Auto on a $20 plan that always provides $80-100/month usage plus the other models that is included for $20.”
“Claude Code reads CLAUDE.md, Cursor reads its rules file, but both of those can be thin and just say read ./AGENTS.md for the actual project context. Then there's one place you edit and neither tool is a stale copy.”
“I use grok 4.6 on cursor for coding. And it usable for me, at least better than my previous experience using glm 5.2 across 2 opencode go account and 1 cline pass account.”
“OpenCode $10 while Cursor $20 is not much difference, you may use both and see the hitch fits better for certain tasks, maxing out your limit. For example using Cursor for planning and designing and OpenCode for execution.”
“Cursor wins for me on the editor side, tab completion and inline edits while I'm reading code are the part I'd actually miss. If you never leave the terminal, you're probably not missing much.”
“I moved away from Cursor after the pricing started bothering me more than the actual editor. I’ve been trying Freebuff with Claude for my projects instead, and I like having more flexibility around how I use the model. It’s definitely not a magic replacement for Cursor though I still miss some of Cursor’s editor specific features.”
“It's a terminal GO app that sets up the tools for itself in whatever you use, be it cursor or claude code and just access a SQLite database with the memories per project.”
“Not trying to defend cursor, that sounds awful but I’ve been overall very happy with the amount of work I can get done on the Pro+ plan. It must still be heavily subsidized cause when I use cursor models, they last forever.”
“The thing I dislike the most is when branches are deleted through the terminal (local or remote) the Cursor UI doesn’t update. Still shows that it’s working on the branch.”
“It’s a project that orchestrates Codex, Claude Code and Cursor agents for feature implementations from spec to PR. That’s by far the most interesting project and I work on it from morning till night.”