Claude Code vs Cursor 2026: The Honest Comparison (opens in new tab)

SpaceX is reportedly buying Cursor for $60 billion. Anthropic is shipping Claude Code updates every two weeks. Every developer I know is asking the same question: which one should I actually use? I spent the last 90 days shipping production code with both. Not toy projects. Not benchmarks. Real features, in a real codebase, with real deadlines. Here's what each one is actually good at — and where they both fail you. I'm not going to give you a feature table. You're smart enough to read the do...