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I used to feel similarly. But recently started using Claude Code and it does feel a lot better than Cursor for me I'm not sure why. However, Claude does seem to know better where things are and knows not to make unnecessary changes. I still need to guide it and tell it to do things differently some times, but it feels like it's a lot more effective Personally, I also like that usually it just presents to me only one…
> Personally, I also like that usually it just presents to me only one change/file at a time, so it's easier for me to review This is interesting. I haven't used Cursor, but one of my frustrations with Claude Code is that some of the individual changes it asks me to approve are too small for me to make a decision. There are cases where I almost denied a change initially, then realized Claude's approach made sense onc…
Yes, I've adapted to just review quickly, then if it makes sense as part of the task, let it keep going until it's done with the whole thing. Most of the times, by the end it does the right thing
I love that it doesn't auto-commit everything, ala aider, so it's pretty painless to undo stuff
I also keep a TODO.md file with a plan of everything I want to do for the current ticket/PR. I tell CC to keep track of things there. CC takes stuff from there, breaks it down into its own subset of tasks and when finished I tell it to update the TODO.md with the progress. I also tell it to stage files and create commits
The way I use it, it feels like I'm still programming, but I don't need to write code or run commands by myself, nor get stuck googling stuff up. I can just tell CC to do almost anything for me. It takes away the tediousness of what I want to accomplish