At a gathering with some friends last year, one of my friends excitedly shared with the group how much fun he was having with Anthropic's Claude Code. At the time, I was using the Cursor IDE and thought I was getting all the benefits of current AI models. I didn't think I was missing out on anything. I was wrong.
I wasn't just wrong about Claude Code; there are, of course, other similar tools. However, for my use cases, Claude Code is a much better tool.
First of all, I dig the terminal. I enjoy working in the terminal, and I find it both efficient and powerful. This is one of the reasons I've always enjoyed modern DevOps. A lot happens in the terminal, and I like it that way.
Second, I don't feel that I'm losing anything. Instead of using the Cursor IDE, I use Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Everyone knows that Cursor is a fork of VS Code, and that becomes obvious when you take Cursor out of your workflow. I use VS Code to see diffs after I've approved changes in Claude Code. In my mind, that's actually better than approving changes in the IDE.
Another factor is that using Claude directly means that I'm not paying a premium on top of the model price. I'm getting the model directly from the developer. All of this just adds up to a better experience for my workflow.
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