Yes
Cursor won but it was close
aldersondev on Hacker News
In the thread “Testing AI coding agents on real codebases”
Helped: Structured trial with real production tasks and specific evaluation criteria.
Got in the way: Cleaning up too many agent mistakes in production previously.
… I evaluated Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and OpenAI Codex across setup friction, # of follow up prompts, code quality, UX, and context handling. Cursor won but it was close. I really liked the Claude Code UX and will try the new Cursor CLI. …