Comment by SatvikBeri
22 days ago
Seems like there's a speed/autonomy spectrum where Cursor is the fastest, Codex is the best for long-running jobs, and Claude is somewhere in the middle.
Personally, I found Cursor to be too inaccurate to be useful (possibly because I use Julia, which is relatively obscure) – Opus has been roughly the right level for my "pair programming" workflow.
I mainly use Opus as well, Cursor isn't tied to any AI model and both Opus and Sonnet and a lot of others are available. Of course there's differences in how the context is managed, but Opus is usually amazing in Cursor at least.
I will very quickly @- the parts of the code that are relevant to get the context up and running right away. Seems in Claude that's harder..
(They also have their own, "Composer 1", which is just lightning fast compared to the others...and sometimes feels as smart as Opus, but now and then don't find the solution if it's too complicated and I have to ask Opus to clean it up. But if there's simple stuff I switch to it.)