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Cursor certainly isnt the default ! No idea where you're getting that? If anything I would say Claude Code is the default but realistically all the tools are converging to be much of a muchness

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Mostly from what I see used. If you have actual stats that disagree, please post them. It's hard to find hard numbers.

I don't know of any usage stats, but Claude has been mentioned in nearly twice as many comments on HN during the past year compared to Cursor:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Claude%22&type=comment&date...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Cursor%22&type=comment&date...

It would behoove as to no longer rely on metrics like comment count from anonymous users going forward! This used to be a reasonable proxy, but I do not believe it is meaningful now.

You're comparing it to "Claude", not "Claude code", which brings up lots of unrelated entries.

Claude is so Mid-summer 2025. Crayon is the new hotness; everyone's using it and getting 11x gains.

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