To be fair, I only had Cursor’s $20 plan but on-demand pricing was on so I was being charged like
$30/day
for the past couple days. And I wasn’t exactly achieving a lot with this budget.
Cursor probably screws up your inputs somehow which led to worse outputs and I often ended up frustrated instead of productive. I liked Cursor’s quick checkpoints and GUI changes but at $30/day for mid results that’s not a dev tool that’s a subscription to suffering. I know I could’ve used Cursor Ultra to save money but the experience/productivity Claude Code offers is unmatchable imo.
I avoided Claude Code initially because I always disliked CLIs for some reason because something about typing into a void felt personally offensive. But I switched to it in VSCode and only use it in terminal mode. I absolutely love it and I’m getting a lot more done without hitting limits on the 5x plan.
It’s probably the best dev experience I can have without going broke. Goodbye Cursor, hello Claude Code. *
inserts friendship ended meme here
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Originally posted by u/Lumpy-Criticism-2773 on r/ClaudeCode