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Muneeb Hussain
Muneeb Hussain

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Claude Code (MAX) is the best deal

Every single penny in this plan is worth it because Claude Code is the ultimate bundle when it comes to engineering as a whole. It helps with research, documentation, and obviously writing code and building and testing features.

You might think, "Why would anyone go for a terminal-based agent when we can have everything in an IDE like Cursor?" WRONG!

Here's why Claude Code with the Max plan is better than anything you know:

Cursor Drawbacks:

  • Cursor doesn't include complete context; they chunk it to save costs on their end until you enable max mode
  • They charge you 1.2 times the API cost for max mode
  • Cursor Agent struggles with long-running tasks
  • Cursor struggles to understand huge prompts when given file context (because they chunk it)
  • It consumes lot of resources (memory and space)
  • Many VSCode extensions doesn't work

Claude Code Advantages:

  • It always runs with full context and doesn't chunk anything, so every request is a max mode request
  • It can run as long as the task requires without going off track, as it maintains its own todo list to keep up with tasks (already tested on 7+ hours of continuous running)
  • It can spawn multiple sub-agents
  • It has a plan mode where you can brainstorm features and, once done, give it the go-ahead to actually implement them
  • You can build custom workflows and agents with it. For example, ruv-swarms achieves 84.8% on SWE-Bench
  • No rate limits on the Max plan; you can spawn as many agents as you need, and they can work in parallel
  • Claude Code has an SDK and also works as an MCP itself
  • Lightweight, you just need a terminal
  • Integrates with VSCode and it's forks (even Cursor)

Now let's talk about some features developers love in Cursor and how you can easily do that with Claude Code:

  • Checkpoints > Version control with GitHub
  • Background Agents > Claude Code in GitHub Actions
  • Commit Generation > Custom Slash Command (/git-commit)
  • Docs Indexing > Context 7 MCP with WebSearch and Fetch Tool
  • Memories > CLAUDE (md file)
  • Tab Tab Tab > You don't need it anymore
  • Multiple LLMs > Who uses all of them? Everyone uses the Claude 4 family because they are the best for coding and software engineering in general

To summarize, Claude Code is such a gem. It's like the best agentic flow with best-in-class models and full context, which also allows you to build your own workflows and agents for specific purposes.

Bonus: You don't need $100 or $200 to get started with Claude Code. It works with Claude's Pro plan, which costs $17 per month, or you can even use it with your own API key.

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