Why hackers moved from Cursor to Claude
1 hacker described this switch in public comments. Their words, with links to the originals.
What hackers said about the move
“I switched from Cursor to Claude because the limits are so much higher but I see Anthropic playing a lot more games to limit token use”causal, 2026-04-06original comment ↗
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Cursor vs Claude
| Cursor | Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Hackers who recommend | 6 | 24 |
| Hackers who criticize | 12 | 25 |
| Moved away from it | 6 | 13 |
| Moved to it | 3 | 11 |
Counts are distinct hackers in the sampled comments, not market share.
Criticism of Cursor
“Cursor / SpaceX will just have free rein to just train on your hosted code if you use Cursor Origin.”colesantiago, 2026-08-18original comment ↗
“When Cursor hijacked literally every CMD key combo, I got fed up and switched back to VSCode.”murlax, 2026-08-01original comment ↗
“you shipped an app fast with Lovable / v0 / Cursor and it works, but it looks and behaves like the AI default.”jensrusi, 2026-07-01original comment ↗
“I really don’t see what Curor’s value is longer term. Why pay a middle man?”basisword, 2026-06-16original comment ↗
“I’m also not going to use Cursor as xAI plans to acquire Cursor.”dangus, 2026-05-30original comment ↗
Praise for Claude
“those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui”nsonha, 2026-10-01original comment ↗
“I recently switched from Codex to Claude”RestartKernel, 2026-09-16original comment ↗
“I absolutely love Claude's coding capabilities”pid0x17, 2026-09-15original comment ↗
“claude was able to diagnose that the 2013 rail is around 11.44v (outside of the 10v range iirc)”jlawrence6809, 2026-09-02original comment ↗
“So far all the suggestion that Opus 5.0 offered me, always aligned with what i wanted.”benjiro29, 2026-08-13original comment ↗