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The difference between Claude Code and Cursor is that one is a command line tool and the other an IDE. You can use Claude models in both and all these techniques can be applied with Cursor and its rules, too.

It's Coke vs. Pepsi.

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Not even close. An agentic tool can be fully autonomous, an IDE like Cursor is, well it's "just" an editor. Quite the opposite. Sure it does some heavy lifting too, but still the user writes the code. They start to implement fully agentic tools and models, but they are nowhere near work as good as Claude Code does.

There is also Cursor Agent CLI which is a TUI exactly like CC. I switched to it because I don't like GUI AI assistants, but I also couldn't stand CC always being overloaded and having many bugs that were affecting me. I'm not on Cursor Agent CLI with GPT5 and happy to have an alternative to CC.

How is Cursor Agent + GPT5 holding up? I've been on Claude code for a while, but there's been an increase in timeouts and slowdowns recently.

For my personal projects it has completely replaced the need for CC with Anthropic models for me. At work, I am waiting for native Windows support. I don't like using AI assistants via WSL. Since both CA and CC are Node apps and CC has since shipped native Windows support, I don't foresee it taking CA long either. Especially since it can be hacked to work that way today as I've experimented with here: github.com/TomasHubelbauer/cursor-agent-windows

Good to know. I’ll try it out on an upcoming greenfield. Thanks.

not at all, it's just not a "claude model". All these companies add their own prompts hints on top. it's a totally different experience. Trying using kiro which is also a "claude model" and tell me it's the same

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