i hate terminal stuff and refuse to write code in terminals, and i still think claude code has better results than cursor IDE with sonnet 4. it might be a mixture of it mixing in opus (which i never really used with cursor) or it might be that there's a bigger context window or its agentic process is somewhat different. im not entirely sure. but i feel like it gets things right more consistently and introduces fewer issues. it might also be the use of CLAUDE.md which i think has helped a ton in consistently making sure its following best practices for my project