Lots of legitimate sharp edges here using Cursor. Claude's CLI tool and aider are my current two best of the best, and they absolutely are capable of doing som

Lots of legitimate sharp edges here using Cursor. Claude's CLI tool and aider are my current two best of the best, and they absolutely are capable of doing some of what he discussed. They, like any tool, have their quirks. aider's claude usage is much cheaper than claude CLI, but it needs more prompting around what to write and what not to with 3.7; 3.7 is overeager. Claude CLI is crazy expensive. And I wish I could use it with gemini 2.5. I think of it like this: the best tools currently let me be a PM most of the time, a senior engineer when needed, and occasionally force me to be a junior engineer to fix shit. The percentage of time I can go up the stack only keeps increasing month on month.