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Re:Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? by didgeoridoo on Monday May 12, 2025 @07:20AM (#43961794)
Wow my first venture into Claude Code (which completely failed for a minor feature addition on a tiny Swift codebase) burned $5 in about 20 minutes.

Probably related to Sonnet 3.7’s rampant ADHD and less the CLI tool itself (and maybe a bit of LLMs-suck-at-Swift?)

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Re:Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf? by liveoneggs on Monday May 12, 2025 @10:06AM (#43963060)
In my testing aider tends to spend about 1/10th the money as claude code. I assume because, in aider, you are explicit about /add and everything
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