In my experience, it is much better at tool-calling, which is huge when we're talking about agentic coding. It also seems to do a better job of keeping things cleaning and not going off on tangents for anything that isn't accomplished in one shot.
Cursor on the other hand, especially with GPT-5 today but typically with Sonnet 4.1, has been a workhorse at my company for months. I have never had Claude Code complete a meaningful ticket once. Even a small thing like fixing a small bug or updating the documentation on the site.
Would love any tips on how to make Claude Code not a complete waste of electricity.
I think you're right.
People getting really poor results probably don't recognize that their prompts aren't very good.
I think some users make assumptions about what the model can't do before they even try, so their prompts don't take advantage of all the capabilities the model provides.
I don’t doubt I could improve my prompts but I don’t have those same prompting problems with cursor.
You probably mean Opus 4.1; there's no Sonnet 4.1 yet.