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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+(OP)
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+u
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.

>>petefo+fa
Claude Code has a Cursor and VSCode extension so it replaces their chat sidebars, which is how many people use it today over just the CLI. What I'm trying to understand is how they're different if so, but it seems like what I'm learning is that they're basically converging in functionality and commoditizing for now and it comes down to personal preference. Personally I still use Cursor because it has a lot of other models than just Claude ones, but I guess some people trust Anthropic enough to not want any other models that may arise in the future too.

>>satvik+4g2
Yep, that's exactly what I meant when I said that CC is moving past it's CLI-first roots.

I haven't personally tried the CC extension because like you, I concluded that it sounds like a single-company Cursor with way fewer points of integration into the IDE.

I hate bikeshedding and rarely do I switch tooling unless something is demonstrably better; preferably 10x better. For me, the Cursor IDE experience is easily 10x better than copying and pasting from ChatGPT, which is why I created this thread in the first place.