I’ve been using Claude Code as my primary coding assistant for the past few months. As someone managing an engineering team, I need tools that actually work — not toys that demo well but fall apart in production. Here are 10 tips that genuinely save me hours every week. 1. Use Claude Code for Code Review Pre-screening Before I review my team’s PRs, I run them through Claude Code first: ...
“Should I use Cursor or Claude Code?” I get asked this a lot. The answer is: both, for different things. But that’s a cop-out, so let me actually break it down. I’ve used Cursor since v0.2 and Claude Code since it launched. Here’s what 6+ months of daily use taught me. The TL;DR Cursor Claude Code Best for Writing & editing code Planning, reviewing, generating Interface VS Code (GUI) Terminal (CLI) Context Auto-indexes your project You provide context manually Speed Fast inline completions Slower, deeper responses Price $20/mo (Pro) $20/mo (Claude Pro) or API Learning curve Low (it’s VS Code) Medium (terminal workflow) When Cursor Wins 1. You’re Writing Code Right Now Cursor’s tab completion is genuinely good. It understands your project structure, your coding patterns, and your intent. When you’re in flow state writing code, switching to a terminal breaks that flow. ...
Every week there’s a new “100 AI Tools You NEED” thread on Twitter. Most of them are demos pretending to be products. I lead an engineering team doing real-time data processing. Here are the tools that actually survived more than a week in my workflow. 1. Claude Code — Daily Driver for Everything What it does: Coding assistant that runs in your terminal. How I actually use it: Pre-screen code reviews before I look at PRs Generate test cases from specs Debug production issues by pasting stack traces Write documentation that people actually read Why it wins: It handles large context windows well. I can paste an entire file and ask specific questions about it. GPT-4 and Gemini are good too, but Claude Code’s terminal integration makes it frictionless. ...