Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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?

Claude code is simply the superior product for engineers. At least right now.

Yeah I haven’t touched copilot since cursor dropped. I need to figure out the workflow that taps into Claude Code still.

Admittedly, I tried copilot early days, I don't know how much it has improved. So sticking to cursor / cc.

Task to task, claude code generally does a much better job - minimal changes, high degree of correctness, built in planning mode, ability to create actions.

A huge benefit is that I can use it in any IDE and don't have to use a damp vscode fork.