Nine days ago I cancelled Claude and moved to Cursor. I wrote the first impressions after three days. This is the second part. Short version: the experience is going very well. I am staying.
The new thing is not a benchmark. I went on holiday and left the laptop at home. From my phone, inside Cursor, I kept using Claude agents on my projects. I never did that when I paid Claude, because I thought you could not. I was wrong about Claude — and I only found out after I had already switched. The week was very good. I got the work done.
Nine days in
- The experience is going very well. I picked Cursor for a reason, and nine days later it still fits.
- Three reasons I stay: several models on one bill, a $60 plan that matches what I actually spend, and agents from the phone.
- I used Claude agents inside Cursor from my mobile — on holiday, without the laptop — and I got what I needed done.
- I never did this on Claude. Not because Claude cannot. Because I believed it could not, so I never tried.
- The mobile agent UX still needs work. Cursor has a lot to optimise. Sometimes the agent does things I did not ask for.
- Cursor still feels slower than Claude, and the interface is sometimes less intuitive.
- I am staying subscribed for a few months. When I have new feelings — or if I switch — I will write them here, as usual.
I Used Claude Agents From My Phone. I Just Did It in Cursor.
This is the part that surprised me. I am not running Grok from a sun lounger for the sake of it. Inside Cursor, from the phone, I am using Claude agents to keep working on the same projects I would have opened on the laptop. Pull a thread, send a follow-up, check a diff, keep the thing moving.
When I paid Claude, I never did that. I treated Claude as the tool that lived on the computer. I thought agents from the mobile, with the PC off, were a Cursor thing. They are not exclusive to Cursor. Claude Code has cloud sessions too. I just did not use them, because I had already decided they were not there.
That is on me. It is also why the switch still makes sense. I did not discover the phone loop until I was already in Cursor. Now that I have it, I am not giving it back.
Holiday, No Laptop, Work Still Got Done
I went away and I did not pack the computer. That used to mean the projects waited. This time I opened Cursor on the phone, pointed an agent at the repo, and did what I needed. Not a full day of coding. The jobs I actually had: continue a change, review what came back, send the next instruction.
It was very satisfactory. That is the honest word. Not magical. Not “I shipped a company from a beach.” I got the work done without dragging a charger and a hot fan through a suitcase. For how I live, that is a big deal.
The loop is still a pull request, not a button that publishes to production. You start the agent, it edits the GitHub repo, you review, you merge, then Netlify or whoever you use does the rest. I am fine with that. I would not want the agent to push straight to main.
This Is the Third Reason I Picked Cursor
In the first piece I had two reasons. I still have them. The $60 plan sits in the gap between Claude’s $20 bill, which was too small for me, and the $100 one, which left more than half unused. And I can switch models when the first answer looks off. Four AIs still see more than one. I wrote about that market in AI plans that let you choose the model.
The phone agents are now the third leg. Without them I still liked the plan and the model picker. With them, Cursor covers how I actually work when I am not at the desk. That is the combination that decided it for me — not a claim that Claude has no agents.
If you want the product comparison rather than this week of my life, Cursor vs GitHub Copilot is the other page. This one is just what happened after I cancelled.
The Mobile UX Still Has a Long Way to Go
I am not going to pretend the holiday week was smooth the whole time. Cursor has a lot left to optimise on this feature. The interface on the phone is not as clear as it should be. You spend time figuring out where you are in the task. You tap more than you want. Claude’s own apps often feel more obvious in that sense. Cursor’s desktop IDE still feels more finished than Visual Studio Code. The mobile agent surface does not feel like that yet.
The other problem is worse when you are not watching closely. Sometimes the agent just does things. Extra files. Extra steps. A change I did not ask for. On a laptop you catch it in the diff while you sit there. On a phone, with the laptop at home, that extra work is easier to miss until later. I still had to pull it back more than once.
None of that ruined the week. It is why I am not writing “the feature is done.” It is useful enough to be a reason to stay. It is not useful enough to stop complaining.
What Is Worse Than Claude
Two things I said on day three still hold, and they are not only about heat.
Cursor still seems slower than Claude. Not always. Often enough that I notice. Claude Code, when I used it every day, felt faster at doing exactly what I asked. I am trading some speed for the rest of the package.
The UX is sometimes less intuitive than Claude’s. On the desktop that is a small thing — I already like Cursor’s editor more than Visual Studio Code. On the phone it is a real gap. If you want a native Android app, Cursor still does not have one. The browser at cursor.com/agents is how I ran the holiday week. It worked. It is not as good as Claude’s Android app.
The Bottom Line
I made the right call. Cursor fits how I work: several models, a $60 plan that matches my price, and agents I can run from a phone when the laptop stays home. The experience is going very well. I am staying subscribed for a few months.
I will not pretend it is faster than Claude, or that the mobile agents are finished. They are the third reason I chose Cursor, and they still need work. If you are happy on Claude Code, do not switch for agents alone — Claude can do that too, and I only learned it after I left. Switch if the $20 / $100 cliff is your problem, or if you want more than one model, or if you want the phone loop I actually used this week.
If you are not sure which of those is yours, use the six-question form. That is how I got here. When I have new feelings — or if I change AI — I will tell you, as I always do.