IMO: The people who are obsessed with Claude Code are the people who weren't really engineers to begin with. For them, any level of productivity is "extremely impressive" and "going to kill engineering jobs" because they never really understood what software engineers do, and had no sense of what the demarcations on the scale of productivity even should be.
The reason why they like Claude Code specifically over Cursor isn't because they were fans of terminal windows; on the contrary, its because CC is simpler. Cursor is complicated, and its interface communicates to the user that eventually you might be grabbing the wheel. Of course, experienced engineers want to grab the wheel; working together with the AI toward some goal. But these CC-stans don't. All that extra stuff in the UI scares them, because they wouldn't know what to do with it if they had to do something with it.
Its this particular kind of person that's also all over /r/ClaudeAI or /r/Cursor complaining about rate limits. If you've ever used these products, you'd realize very quickly: The only way you're hitting rate limits so quickly on the paid plans is if the only code that's being outputted is from the AI, nonstop, for eight hours a day, using only the most expensive and intelligent models. The only people who do this are the people who have no brain of their own to contribute to the process. Most CC/Cursor users don't hit rate limits, because they're working with the AI, like a tool, not managing it like a direct report.
The reason why they like Claude Code specifically over Cursor isn't because they were fans of terminal windows; on the contrary, its because CC is simpler. Cursor is complicated, and its interface communicates to the user that eventually you might be grabbing the wheel. Of course, experienced engineers want to grab the wheel; working together with the AI toward some goal. But these CC-stans don't. All that extra stuff in the UI scares them, because they wouldn't know what to do with it if they had to do something with it.
Its this particular kind of person that's also all over /r/ClaudeAI or /r/Cursor complaining about rate limits. If you've ever used these products, you'd realize very quickly: The only way you're hitting rate limits so quickly on the paid plans is if the only code that's being outputted is from the AI, nonstop, for eight hours a day, using only the most expensive and intelligent models. The only people who do this are the people who have no brain of their own to contribute to the process. Most CC/Cursor users don't hit rate limits, because they're working with the AI, like a tool, not managing it like a direct report.