Comment by 827a
7 days ago
One thing I'm curious about: Assuming you're using the same underlying models, and putting obvious pricing differences aside: What is the functional difference between e.g. Charm and Claude Code? And Cursor, putting aside the obvious advantages running in a GUI brings and that integration.
Is there secret sauce that would make one better than the other? Available tools? The internal prompting and context engineering that the tool does for you? Again, assuming the model is the same, how similar should one expect the output from one to another be?
the secret sauce will be the available tools, prompting, context engineering, etc, yup whatever "agentic algorithm" has been built in.
I would honestly think no, what couldn't be reversed engineered eventually? We see this all the time.
Am curious about such results, it's one thing to think it's another to know! :D
Yeah and as far as I know, both Claude Code and obviously Crush here are open source. Cursor isn't, but their code is probably just sitting in javascript in the application bundle and should be reversible if it actually mattered?