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I spend the money on Claude Code, and don't think twice. I've spent low 1,000s at this point but the return is justified.

I use Cursor when I code myself. But I don't use it's chat or agent features. I had replaced VS Code with it but at this point I could go back to VS Code, but I'm lazy.

Cursor agent/chat we're fine if you're bottlenecked by money. I have no idea why or how it uses things like the codebase embedding. An agent on top of a filesystem is a powerful thing. People also like Aider and RooCode for the CLI experience and I think they are affordable.

To make the most use of these things, you need to guide them and provide them adequate context for every task. For Claude Code I have built a meta management framework that works really well. If I were forced to use cursor I would use the same approach.