Comment by _neil
3 months ago
Anecdotally, Claude code performs much better than Claude within Cursor. Not sure if it’s a system prompt thing or if I’ve just convinced myself of it because the aesthetic is so much better, but either way the end result feels better to me.
One has the incentive to burn through as much tokens and the other has an incentive to use as little as possible
Great point.
My choice conspiracy is resource allocation and playing favorites.