Cursor works better for me than Claude Code. In my opinion, Claude intelligence is too narrow.

Good luck explaining all the details to Claude, it tends to ignore them anyway. Like a middle-level SWE, it's too stubborn to appreciate them, and prefers to blast energy (tokens) on shuffling the lines instead of seeing a bigger picture.

Cursor, in contrast, is a highly educated coder that gets you immediately.

I've got an impression that Claude Code is more oriented on unattended development of CRUD applications, while Cursor is more refined and closer to a senior-level SWE/PhD for productive work in pair.