Opus in Cursor is just so much more responsive and easy to talk to, compared to Opus in Claude
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In the thread “Eight more months of agents”
Helped: Using Opus in Cursor for planning and conversation.
Got in the way: Uncertainty about Cursor's Auto mode leading to wasted time.
… so this month I'm jumping between Claude Code and Cursor, sometimes writing the plans and having the conversation in Cursor and dump the implementation plan into Claude. Opus in Cursor is just so much more responsive and easy to talk to, compared to Opus in Claude. Cursor has this "Auto" mode which feels like it has very liberal limits (amortized cost I guess) that I'm also trying to use more, but -- I don't really like to flip a coin and if it lands up head then waste half hour discovering the LLM made a mess the LLM and try again forcing the model. …