Every single penny in this plan is worth it because Claude Code is the ultimate bundle when it comes to engineering as a whole. It helps with research, documentation, and obviously writing code and building and testing features.

You might think, "Why would anyone go for a terminal-based agent when we can have everything in an IDE like Cursor?" WRONG!

Here's why Claude Code with the Max plan is better than anything you know:

Cursor Drawbacks:

• Cursor doesn't include complete context; they chunk it to save costs on their end until you enable max mode
• They charge you 1.2 times the API cost for max mode
• Cursor Agent struggles with long-running tasks
• Cursor struggles to understand huge prompts when given file context (because they chunk it)
• It consumes lot of resources (memory and space)
• Many VSCode extensions doesn't work

Claude Code Advantages:

• It always runs with full context and doesn't chunk anything, so every request is a max mode request
• It can run as long as the task requires without going off track, as it maintains its own todo list to keep up with tasks (already tested on 7+ hours of continuous running)
• It can spawn multiple sub-agents
• It has a plan mode where you can brainstorm features and, once done, give it the go-ahead to actually implement them
• You can build custom workflows and agents with it. For example, ruv-swarms achieves 84.8% on SWE-Bench
• No rate limits on the Max plan; you can spawn as many agents as you need, and they can work in parallel
• Claude Code has an SDK and also works as an MCP itself
• Lightweight, you just need a terminal
• Integrates with VSCode and it's forks (even Cursor)

Now let's talk about some features developers love in Cursor and how you can easily do that with Claude Code:

• Checkpoints > Version control with GitHub
• Background Agents > Claude Code in GitHub Actions
• Commit Generation > Custom Slash Command (/git-commit)
• Docs Indexing > Context 7 MCP with WebSearch and Fetch Tool
• Memories > CLAUDE (md file)
• Tab Tab Tab > You don't need it anymore
• Multiple LLMs > Who uses all of them? Everyone uses the Claude 4 family because they are the best for coding and software engineering in general

To summarize, Claude Code is such a gem. It's like the best agentic flow with best-in-class models and full context, which also allows you to build your own workflows and agents for specific purposes.

Bonus: You don't need $100 or $200 to get started with Claude Code. It works with Claude's Pro plan, which costs $17 per month, or you can even use it with your own API key.