So a claude subscription is $20 and so is Cursor - but Cursor gives unlimited claude usage. Although its a bit slow after your fast uses run out (like 20 secs) the dealy is minimal and way better than the frustration when claude just runs out.

Cursor is currently burning VC money to try and take market share and so giving the unlimited claude usage for $20. Just be willing to leave them when they eventually try to lock down revenues - but that'll be a fair while away.

P.S. I also hate the idea of a closed source ide - but not as much when they are giving away free money functionally

I see a lot of conversations comparing Claude code with Cursor. If I were to run CC in Cursor’s terminal, wouldn’t I get to benefit from both? I am not factoring in cost here, but strictly trying to determine what’s the best potential setup for development

Friends!

Can you help me understand your optimal CC + Cursor setup, best practices, and any pro tips?

I'm a self-taught (and not-so-great) programmer

I'm trying to build a few web-applications as personal projects

I used to (3m ago) copy-paste code from Claude.AI to my projects :D
A month or so back, I joined the Cursor train; although great, I'm aware of its challenges...
I now have CC and want to learn what is the best way to leverage the two

I've heard that people use CC as a "Oracle / Overseeing" agent where Cursor is an "Executor"
What type of workflows / practices have worked best for you all?
Currently toying with the CC inside the Cursor IDE, but have no clue how to let them optimally work together

Any resources would be super helpful!

Is it better to get Clause Pro membership or Cursor Pro membership if the goal is to utilise Claude 3.7 for coding? Use case is working on coding projects.

Both cost the same ($20).

P.S: Already have a GPT Plus subscription.

I've tried Claude Code over the last few days on a few Ruby on Rails 7 and 8 codebases that I work on.

It's interesting, and it has a few features that would be good additions to Cursor.

Compared to cursor:

The good:

• Very high code quality. This thing blows Cursor out of the water. I can't believe both use the same model when I see the difference in how Claude-3.7 behaves in Cursor and how it behaves in Claude Code. It's a completely different experience, on the same codebase with the same model.

• It reports if its context is nearly filled, and allows you to compact it (summarise) or clear it. Great feature that Cursor should have too.

• No 'can't connect to Anthropic' or 'can't connect to OpenAI' errors.

• Less errors compared to Cursor operating on the same codebase after writing code.

• I've had no functionality breaking mistakes, which do happen every now and then with Cursor, where it just breaks something or large files are truncated.

The bad:

• It's not an IDE, but a node based terminal application that works on your codebase. That makes it a bit harder to work with (it would be fun to run it on an old VT200 terminal by the way).

• The price! Working on just a few new features in a Rails app for around 3 hours kost me around $20,- in Claude Code. That's not cheap compared to what I pay for Cursor in a month and definitely something Claude should fix.

• No MCP servers in Claude Code (at least I haven't been able to figure out how), though I haven't really missed them. Since it's a terminal app, Claude Code can execute all sorts of commands.

• Cursor on the other hand is much cheaper, but that might also be its downfall. I'm perfectly willing to to pay more for Cursor if the quality it delivers is higher and more consistent.

Hi all,

Curious how you guys think about Claude Pro + Cursor versus Claude Code (included in Claude Max). I'm currently working on a new software project, using Claude Pro and Visual Studio Code (+ GitHub Copilot). Curious about your insights!