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A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

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548 points kmelve | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 19:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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block_dagger ◴[02 Sep 25 21:59 UTC] No.45109673[source]▶
The author doesn't make it clear why they switched from Cursor to Claude. Curious about what they can do with Claude that can't be done with Cursor. I use both a lot and find Cursor to be superior for the very large codebases I work in.
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meerab ◴[03 Sep 25 00:08 UTC] No.45110743[source]▶
Personal opinion:

Claude code is more user friendly than cursor with its CLI like interface. The file modifications are easy to view and it automatically runs psql, cd, ls , grep command. Output of the commands is shown in more user friendly fashion. Agents and MCPs are easy to organized and used.

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1. block_dagger ◴[03 Sep 25 00:52 UTC] No.45111063[source]▶
I feel just the opposite. I think Cursor's output is actually in the realm of "beautiful." It's well formatted and shows the user snippets of code and reasoning that helps the user learn. Claude is stuck in a terminal window, so reduced to monospaced bullet lines. Its verbose mode spits out lines of file listings and other context irrelevant to the user.