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NoCursor, Claude Code · 17 Jun 2026

Claude Code is painfully slow compared to Cursor for my workloads

mnehring on Hacker News

In the thread “SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Claude Code is painfully slow compared to Cursor for my workloads.

… My employer recently switched us all from Cursor to Claude Code. Aside from my personal preference for having a chat window inside VSCode, Claude Code is painfully slow compared to Cursor for my workloads. I think part of this is due to Claude's massive bump in popularity without a similarly rapid build-out of compute. …