Why hackers moved from Cursor to Claude Code
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I switched to Claude Code and VSCode for any edits.”murlax, 2026-08-01original comment ↗
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Cursor vs Claude Code
| Cursor | Claude Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 6 | 14 |
| Hackers who criticize | 12 | 21 |
| Moved away from it | 6 | 19 |
| Moved to it | 3 | 4 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of Cursor
“Cursor / SpaceX will just have free rein to just train on your hosted code if you use Cursor Origin.”colesantiago, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“you shipped an app fast with Lovable / v0 / Cursor and it works, but it looks and behaves like the AI default.”jensrusi, 2026-07-01original comment ↗
“I really don’t see what Curor’s value is longer term. Why pay a middle man?”basisword, 2026-06-16original comment ↗
“I’m also not going to use Cursor as xAI plans to acquire Cursor.”dangus, 2026-05-30original comment ↗
“I switched from Cursor to Claude because the limits are so much higher”causal, 2026-04-06original comment ↗
Praise for Claude Code
“I've found the cross-session context and memory in claude code much more helpful which can lead to better outcomes faster.”j0ej0ej0e, 2026-08-29original comment ↗
“We switched from looking at an UI (claude webui) and waiting for code generation to using claude exclusivlie on the cli and claude doing a lot more stuff in the…”read full quote
“We switched from looking at an UI (claude webui) and waiting for code generation to using claude exclusivlie on the cli and claude doing a lot more stuff in the background with smaller prompts.”
“Over time I found that it would rarely fail to one-shot my request”czxtm, 2026-07-02original comment ↗
“having them in the pair cc + models is what matters”NitpickLawyer, 2026-04-30original comment ↗
“The vast vast majority of my code is written by Claude Code, so I don’t write much.”goodoldneon, 2026-03-30original comment ↗
Other moves from Cursor
- Cursor → VS Code (2)
- Cursor → Claude (1)
- Cursor → Codex CLI (1)
- Cursor → Ghostty (1)
- Cursor → Neovim (1)