I've been using Cursor daily for about eight months now. It's become my go-to for writing code fast – the Tab completion feels like reading my mind, and the Agent mode handles messy refactoring tasks that would've taken me hours.
But honestly? I kept hitting a wall with code reviews. Cursor's fine for generating code, but when I needed to understand a 3000-line codebase I hadn't touched before, it just couldn't keep up. That's when I dove into Claude Code.
The big difference I noticed: Claude Code's 1M token context window means I can feed it an entire module at once. No chopping files, no context loss. For reviews, that's gold. Last week I ran claude review --since="1 week ago" on our main branch and got a summary that actually flagged three potential bugs I'd missed. Not just style nits – real_logic issues.
That said, Claude Code isn't replacing Cursor for me anytime soon. Writing code with Cursor's composer still feels faster for greenfield work. The UI is just built for it – select a chunk, ask AI to refactor, done.
My take: these tools aren't competing. They're solving different problems. I use Cursor to build, Claude Code to review and debug. Both are free and work great on macOS. Worth trying if you're serious about shipping cleaner code.
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