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The most popular question from the Q&A was direct: Why Cursor instead of Claude Code? I prefer Cursor because I want to be in the loop. With some of these tools, their strength is actually what I don’t want. I use Claude Code for well-defined tasks where I know the result. But for thinking together with AI, when I don’t know what the result is, I prefer Cursor’s approach. Patrik Boström adds a structural advantage: “With Cursor, you have the context of the structure. Using a project, everything is just bundled together in a pile. Being able to start in Claude, dump it into Cursor and then extract it. It’s always this storage hub that lets me refer to a strategy when creating a slide deck.” Zev Arnovitz offers a both/and solution: “I run Claude Code within Cursor, and this gives you the best of both worlds. It has a really cool VS Code extension, and you can run it within the terminal within Cursor. You can decide what you want to defer to Claude Code and what you’d like to do within Cursor because of the UI.” Sven-Erik Nielsen cuts through the debate: “Use what you have. You can agonize over tools, and maybe at some point there will be a huge delta between best tool and the next best tool. But just getting your hands dirty is probably the best thing to do.” âžĄïž The “best” tool is the one you’ll actually use. Start with what you have access to. If you want autonomous task completion, use Claude Code. If you want a thinking partner, use Cursor. Or run both together.

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