Cursor

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “in cursor i wasted less tokens while i do some tasks. During auto-tests runs, Claude code re-watch tasks and context before start my auto-test. In cursor this problem not reproduce. I use cursor most of the time.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-09-06

• “I am the top user of Cursor and Claude Code in my company, administer both, train others”

  POSITIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-15

• “having it sit directly in the editor (cursor lately) keeps the momentum going way better for the tiny fixes”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-14

• “Claude/Cursor is the best for the long term, usually cheaper”

  POSITIVE · Reddit · 2026-08-14

• “agent over-engineering (generating unnecessary abstraction layers for simple requirements) is one of the biggest token drains across CLI tools right now. I've noticed this constantly when running multi-file tasks on Claude Code and Cursor”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2026-08-14

• “If Grok Bot stays free with Cursor Ultra. That is going to be huge reason for me to stay on Ultra.”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “cursor with claude let me actually see what was happening and fix it properly instead of praying the next prompt would work”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2026-08-12

• “Cursor + Composer, can make it look like it's working, but underneath the surface, sooner or later you'll encounter plenty of issues and then you'll have to fix them”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Reddit · 2026-08-10

• “I used to use Cursor, but now my workflow is that I use an inhouse CLI tool I wrote”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “Cursor has a ton of contextual awareness, uses subagents automatically and is significantly faster with no drop off I have found”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “Some of the highest-time-saved-for-max-ROI agentic problems I've solved to date were in September and October of last year with Claude or Cursor.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “Cursor would have used probably half a million tokens based on my previous usage”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “on a long Claude Code or Cursor run you start clicking Approve on autopilot and stop reading the diffs”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-07-08

• “Same harness (Cursor), same rules, same prompts, vastly different outcomes!”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-02

• “Ive become addicted to using cursor, claude code, etc etc. and I regret it so much”

  NEGATIVE · youtube · 2026-06-27

• “Cursor really nailed the implementation for software development”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-06-25

• “cursor thus far has proven to be the least error prone, applied add on skills by far the best, utilised them several times better than other ides, leading to most thorough output”

  MIXED · performance · Reddit · 2026-06-22

• “low-hanging fruit for Cursor is to have a massive speed advantage over Claude Code”

  MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-17

• “maybe I'd prefer Cursor only because I can easily switch between models”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “$60 cursor plan (often exceeding it which costed more in API)”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “I seem to get a lot more tokens for my $ with the $200 plan from Anthropic or OpenAI than I do from the $200 plan from Cursor”

  NEGATIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “the $20 Cursor plan gives you _way_ more tokens than Codex/Claude code/Antigravity”

  POSITIVE · price · Hacker News · 2026-06-16

• “where Codex, Claude, and Cursor have fallen down for me in the past is: - slow and outdated vms - horrible/no way to standardize environments for my team - no way to bring our own compute to help resolve these issues”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “Cursor and Continue.dev have the same startsWith parsing issue”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-23

• “All the designers at my company switched to Cursor nearly a year ago. They made live mockups that don't even need a spec to implement, because the expected behavior is already captured in the prototype.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-18