I’ve been using Cursor for most of my day-to-day dev work, and I’m genuinely curious about why so many developers seem to prefer Claude Code. Whenever I look at the workflows people describe with Claude Code - planning, agentic implementation, running commands, MCPs, rules/instructions, multiple agents, worktrees, etc. I keep thinking: I can already do most of this inside Cursor. And with Cursor, I also get the benefit of having all of that integrated directly into the editor: diffs, file navigation, multiple agent sessions, code review, context, terminal access, and so on. I’m not saying Cursor is better. I’m actually trying to understand what I’m missing. For people who have seriously used both, what does Claude Code let you do that either: Cursor genuinely can’t do, or Claude Code does significantly better enough that you’re willing to give up the more integrated IDE experience? Is the advantage actually a specific feature? Better agent behaviour/harness? Scriptability? Composability with other CLI tools? Running lots of agents in parallel? Something else? I’d especially be interested in answers from people who switched from Cursor to Claude Code and stayed there. What was the thing that made it click? submitted by /u/cosmicCounterpart
Originally posted by u/cosmicCounterpart on r/ClaudeCode