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>>EGreg+(OP)
There's a small but seemingly tireless brigade of "you're not actually moving faster, you're just fooling yourself" pundits on this site that feel compelled to chime in every time someone mentions that they get any benefit from AI coding tools. I'm just not going to engage with them anymore.

That said... I jumped to a few random moments in your video and had an "oh my god" reaction because you really were not kidding when you said that you were pasting code.

I'm pretty much begging you to install and use Cursor. Whatever boost you're getting from your current workflow, you will see triple through use of their Agent/Plan/Debug modes, especially when using Opus 4.5. I promise you: it's a before electricity vs after electricity scenario. I'm actually excited for you.

A lot of folks will tell you to use Claude Code. I personally find that it doesn't make sense for the sorts of projects I work on; I would 100% start with Cursor either way.

>>petefo+4Uk
Isn't Claude Code the same as Cursor agent mode? I really don't get why anyone would want to lock yourself to one LLM creator in the former vs having all the LLMs in the latter. How do you stop yourself from bursting through the quota with Opus? That's my biggest worry and it keeps me from using it over Sonnet in my Cursor.

>>satvik+usl
Honestly, it depends on what you mean by "the same as". Both are (in my case, at least) running Opus 4.5 instances. After that, it's like using a CNC or a shop full of hand tools. They are both great, and people who know one often know both. The process is wildly different, however.

Not busting my quota is simply not my top priority. I'm on their $200/month plan and I have it locked to a $1000/month overage limit, though the most I've ever gone through using it every day, all day is about $700. That probably sounds like a lot if you're optimizing for a $20/month token budget, but it's budgeted for. That $10-12k/year is excellent value for the silly amount of functionality that I've been able to create.

Sonnet is a really good LLM, and you can build great things with it. However, if you're using this for serious work, IMO you probably want to use the most productive tools available.

Opus 4.1 was, to be real, punishingly expensive. It made me sweat. Thank goodness that Opus 4.5 is somehow both much better and much cheaper.

>>petefo+TKl
What do you see as the difference between Claude Code and Cursor agent mode, since you said Claude Code doesn't work for your type of project so I'm curious why that is.

Edit, I see you answered this in another response, thanks.

>>satvik+nLl
While I am vaguely aware that CC has started to move past its CLI-first roots, I still think of it as a process that you do in a terminal window vs something you do in an IDE like VSCode or Cursor.

I don't have any interest in yucking anyone's yum, but for me, I find working in and IDE to be vastly more productive than trying to remember dozens of vim and tmux shortcuts.