Cursor

Alternative IDE/agent in the same category as claude-code. Some monday engineers use it; harmony.ai’s chosen direction is Claude Code primary because anything built there ports to Cursor (the reverse is not true).

Cursor’s strength noted in ai-first-design-setup-2026-04-20: pleasant for design-to-code work and for shared-playground workflows (Intercom does this). Worth keeping for prototype envs even when Claude Code is the daily driver.

Sources

• ai-first-design-setup-2026-04-20 — explicit comparison vs Claude Code

Related concepts

• claude-code — primary tool; Cursor is the secondary fallback / prototype env
• designer-as-developer — Cursor was historically the entry point for designers; now Claude Code Visual is the upgrade path