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I’m not ready to go all-in on Claude Code just yet. Despite the well-earned hype, I’m sticking with Cursor (for now). That’s because model independence is worth more to me than a native tool integration in an “actor-critic” type of workspace.<\/p>\n
I started writing this as a comment on yet another Claude Code praise, but it evolved into an end-of-year reflection on coding assistants. I’ve been hearing a lot about Claude Code, but I haven’t yet found a compelling reason to abandon Cursor, which I’ve used since near its release. For those of us with a coding background, the primary reason for starting with Cursor was the low switching cost from VS Code to Cursor.<\/p>\n
Claude Code is Anthropic’s response to VS Code and its forks: mainly Cursor and Windsurf. By the way, a lesser-known alternative emerged from Google last month: Antigravity.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> It’s currently in public preview, so you can use it for free here<\/a>. It looks promising, and the standout feature is “Agent Manager,” which essentially acts as a mission control dashboard for orchestrating multiple agents working in parallel.<\/p>\n I was planning to test Windsurf once my Cursor subscription expires (for the reason I highlighted here<\/a> \u2013 Codemaps offer a hierarchical mental model of the codebase<\/em>), but a new praise for Claude Code every day further piqued my curiosity. After checking a few resources, this comparison<\/a> seemed fair (if you look past Qodo’s advertising). This one<\/a> is also solid, and ultimately recommends that you “just use both.”<\/p>\n So, what is my plan for 2026?<\/p>\n I still intend to test Windsurf because I find the “Codemaps” feature intriguing. After that, I might revert to VS Code and layer in Claude Code (here<\/a> is how). Meanwhile, I will keep an eye on the evolution of Google’s Antigravity, the latecomer. My hesitation to commit to a specific vendor stems from my frequent use of actor-critic logic (where one model\/agent performs the task and another reviews it). I find value in using different models for these roles, so I want to retain the flexibility to switch between models. Based on the comparisons above, I might face a premium as context usage scales, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay for model independence.<\/p>\n And what do I mean by the actor-critic setup?<\/p>\n While “racing” parallel agents is becoming standard practice (see the Cursor documentation<\/a>), I also use a sequential approach with diverse models: e.g., using Claude to code (the actor) and Gemini to review (the critic). VS Code documentation on agent use<\/a> touches on this “multi-agent” idea without calling it an “actor-critic” setup (rightly so, as I’m just borrowing the concept from reinforcement learning).<\/p>\n Credit for the figure goes to Gemini 3 Flash & Nano Banana based on this reflection.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Click title for image] I’m not ready to go all-in on Claude Code just yet. Despite the well-earned hype, I’m sticking with Cursor (for now). That’s because model independence is worth more to me than a native tool integration in an “actor-critic” type of workspace. I started writing this as a comment on yet another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445"}],"version-history":[{"count":60,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445\/revisions\/2578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}