Claude Code
Anthropic's agentic coding tool. It reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and helps you ship faster from the terminal, IDE or desktop.
Cursor
An AI-first code editor. Fast autocomplete, an agent that edits across your project, and chat that understands your whole repository.
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What it is
Cursor is built on the familiar VS Code foundation, so extensions and shortcuts carry over. On top, it adds tab completion that predicts your next edit and an agent that can make larger changes.
You can choose among several frontier models, including Claude and GPT models, depending on the task.
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