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YesCursor, Claude Code · 3 Apr 2026

I switched to Claude Code Max and I am equally as prolific and paying 1/10th the price

dirtbag__dad on Hacker News

spending around $2k a week

In the thread “Cursor 3”, replying to this comment

Helped: Feeding homegrown linters and architecture context to Claude Code.

Got in the way: Cursor's high cost and frequent subagent spinning up.

… I’m more productive than ever but I’m burning out. Anyway, as a result, I switched to Claude Code Max and I am equally as prolific and paying 1/10th the price. I get my cake and to eat it, too. …