Mixed
Claude Code will read dozens of files and do a surprisingly good job of finding complex bugs, while Cursor seems to just respond with the first hypothesis it comes up with
SatvikBeri on Hacker News
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Helped: Claude Code reading many files to find complex bugs.
Got in the way: Cursor conserving context and giving first hypothesis only.
Cursor performs notably worse for me on my medium-sized codebase (~500kloc), possibly because they try to aggressively conserve context. This is especially true for debugging, Claude Code will read dozens of files and do a surprisingly good job of finding complex bugs, while Cursor seems to just respond with the first hypothesis it comes up with. That said, Cursor Composer is a lot faster and really nice for some tasks that don't require lots of context.