update: bcherny and catwu were rehired by anthropic. very smart move.

companies like cursor who forked VSCode to embed AI into the engineering workflow will die in that interface.

we saw this happen the moment anthropic's CLI agent "claude code" went from good to great and packaged well enough (never hitting rate limits on max) to become our daily driver.

from that moment.. about three weeks ago.. we haven't touched cursor's agent mode. not only because claude code is fundamentally a better coding companion, but because it's faster, the UX extends itself far past code completion, has access to more tools that generate valuable assets, and conducts many workflows outside of code.

for example, after a meeting, with claude code i seamlessly:

enrich todos from meeting notes and transcripts.. with file references, down to specific lines of code. transform those todos into discrete agile tickets. pass them into the appropriate linear projects with the assignee, tags, acceptance criteria, and source material.

for those of you in the weeds with me.. yes i could do this in cursor but it doesn't perform as well and the CLI is where it feels native for me to perform these multi-application workflows.

i have many more thoughts on the above. i don't think terminals are the end-game UX for agentic workflows either. but VSCode forks are certainly not.

anyways, cursor knows this too. in a brilliant move they poached both bcherny and catwu from anthropic. exactly the right hires.

and i hope anthropic doesn't start limiting claude usage in cursor.. the usage would drop over 50% overnight.

here's a great interview from the GOAT latentspace of boris and cat chatting CLI agents.