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Debate time. AI Twitter is waging war over Claude Code vs Cursor. So bringing the debate to Farcaster. Cursor’s been shipping fast, writing ~1B lines/day with natural language, and pulling in $200M ARR. Major companies like Stripe, OpenAI, and even Amazon are trialing it internally. Claude Code just dropped with a different philosophy: terminal-first, agent-native workflows, and a clear bet that most human input will become obsolete. Over 100k devs jumped in week one. Some say Cursor is unsustainable and will bleed out on inference costs. Others argue Claude Code is building for a dev world that barely exists yet. Meanwhile, Copilot quietly dominates. It’s used at 50,000+ orgs, embedded into real production stacks, and widely adopted by enterprise teams who are just getting started with AI coding. So what’s the actual future here? – Is Cursor’s momentum enough to lock in dominance? – Will Claude Code’s agentic workflow catch on outside AI Twitter? – Or does Copilot win by being just boring enough to scale?

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Used Cursor extensively until May. Moved to Claude Code after they introduced Max plan - mainly due to affordability. Never went back to Cursor. I am a terminal/vim person - that's the main reason. I feel CC produces way better code, the memory feature is great, am able to run multiple CC sessions simultaneously in my terminal, and in general CC is maybe slightly better at debugging (only slightly - if you nudge it in the right direction, it does a good job). + Cursor is not just being trialed. A lot of companies are using it day to day a lot. At the end of the day, I think it's just going to be preference. IDE vs CLI. With cursor rules, background agents etc., the gap is shrinking.

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