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So far from my testing I have found Claude Code with Sonnet 4 better than Cursor + GPT-5 still. I started exact same projects at the same time, and it seemed Cl

So far from my testing I have found Claude Code with Sonnet 4 better than Cursor + GPT-5 still. I started exact same projects at the same time, and it seemed Claude Code was just more reliable. It was just much slower in terms of setting up the project and didn't setup the project up as scalably (despite them highlighting that in the demo), and when I tried to instruct it to set it up DRY, modular, etc it kind of didn't just go where I wanted it to, while Claude Code did. It was a game involving OOP, three.js. I think both are probably great at good design and CRUD things.

nextworddev 1y ago
GPT-5 is much cheaper though
- mewpmewp2 1y ago
  I'm using Claude Code which is $200/month, and I do multiple agents, subagents, terminals at the same time, much faster than Cursor. I get almost 24/7 dev time from that.
natiman1000 1y ago
I was initially excited about GPT5, and I quickly switched to it but still can't use it for some reason it is clearly smart but not useful.
- mewpmewp2 1y ago
  I'm getting the same thing I got with Codex when I tried right now. I give it a command, and it keeps reading files and thinking for 5 min+, this never happens with Claude Code.
  - dwaltrip 1y ago
    Oh I tried codex for the first time last night with gpt-5. It looked stuck twice when it used the grep tool (after working successfully for minute or so), and both times I canceled after seeing no output for more than a minute. It would have eventually finished?
    - mewpmewp2 1y ago
      I don't know, but since Claude Code didn't do that, I kind of lost patience. Maybe my bad.
  - visarga 1y ago
    I tried GPT-5 in Cursor today and got the same thing - it started reading and thinking and thinking, and it was quite repetitive. It was unexpected. I wrote it off as "maybe the Cursor GPT-5 prompts are not refined yet".
    - mewpmewp2 1y ago
      Yeah, I honestly don't believe the hype for GPT-5 at all, although I do believe LLMs are awesome, but it feels still to me like they are chasing, e.g. Anthropic, but something is fundamentally off. I may be wrong, maybe there are some cases where it will perform much better. But it just doesn't seem as solid to me as Claude still.

nextworddev 1y ago

GPT-5 is much cheaper though

mewpmewp2 1y ago
I'm using Claude Code which is $200/month, and I do multiple agents, subagents, terminals at the same time, much faster than Cursor. I get almost 24/7 dev time from that.

natiman1000 1y ago

I was initially excited about GPT5, and I quickly switched to it but still can't use it for some reason it is clearly smart but not useful.

mewpmewp2 1y ago
I'm getting the same thing I got with Codex when I tried right now. I give it a command, and it keeps reading files and thinking for 5 min+, this never happens with Claude Code.
- dwaltrip 1y ago
  Oh I tried codex for the first time last night with gpt-5. It looked stuck twice when it used the grep tool (after working successfully for minute or so), and both times I canceled after seeing no output for more than a minute. It would have eventually finished?
  - mewpmewp2 1y ago
    I don't know, but since Claude Code didn't do that, I kind of lost patience. Maybe my bad.
- visarga 1y ago
  I tried GPT-5 in Cursor today and got the same thing - it started reading and thinking and thinking, and it was quite repetitive. It was unexpected. I wrote it off as "maybe the Cursor GPT-5 prompts are not refined yet".
  - mewpmewp2 1y ago
    Yeah, I honestly don't believe the hype for GPT-5 at all, although I do believe LLMs are awesome, but it feels still to me like they are chasing, e.g. Anthropic, but something is fundamentally off. I may be wrong, maybe there are some cases where it will perform much better. But it just doesn't seem as solid to me as Claude still.