Cursor vs. Claude Code - Which is the Best AI Coding Agent?

Cursor Agent and Claude Code dropped within a week of each other. I wanted to find out which coding agent was better. So I gave them each three tasks on a non-trivial web app running in production and ranked each agent on UX, Code Quality, Cost, Autonomy, and Tests & Version Control. tldw: I preferred Claude's CLI based UX. I found Cursor's Agent controls a bit clunky -- it wasn't always clear where and when I needed to click. For as much agency as I was giving to the agent, I also didn't feel like I needed 2/3 of the screen taken up by a file editor. A full-blown IDE might be overwrough…