My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures

Re:My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures by ivanech on Thursday July 17, 2025 @05:58PM (#44598694)

Just got it at work today and it’s a dramatic step change beyond Cursor despite using the same foundation models. Very surprising! There was a task a month ago where AI assistance was a big net negative. Did the same thing today w/ Claude Code in 20ish minutes. And for <$10 in API usage!

Much less context babysitting too. Claude code is really good at finding the things it needs and adding them to its context. I find Cursor’s agent mode ceases to be useful at a task time horizon of 3-5 minutes but Claude Code can chug away for 10+ minutes and make meaningful progress without getting stuck in loops.

Again, all very surprising given that I use sonnet 4 w/ cursor + sometimes Gemini 2.5 pro. Claude Code is just so good with tools and not getting stuck.

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Re:My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures by iambateman on Thursday July 17, 2025 @06:20PM (#44598930)

Cool! If you're on pro, you can use a _lot_ of claude code without paying for API usage, btw.

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Re:My Experience with Claude Code After 2 Weeks of Adventures by bn-l on Friday July 18, 2025 @01:27AM (#44601508)

Even though it’s the same model cursor adds a massive system prompt to every request. And it’s shit and lobotomises the models. After the rug pull I’m exclusive Claude code at the end of my billing period or when cursor cut me off the $60 a month plan—-which will probably come first—-a bit over halfway into my month.

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