So I scaled back our Cursor developer plan to cut costs, and we burned through all of our Claude tokens in just a few days. That left us with Auto, Cursor’s agent router. I wanted to develop a small VS Code extension called Mira Markdown, but I wasn’t very pleased with what Auto produced.
I installed Claude Code, which I’d been meaning to try, and fired it up inside Novi. I subscribed to the Claude Pro plan for $20/month, which gives me significantly more Claude usage than going through the Cursor API. We built the Markdown extension—with every feature we wanted (it’s very simple)—in a short amount of time, and it was implemented correctly. In my experience, Claude is simply far better than using random agents.
Most of the code for Lyric, and a large portion of the Novi code, was written with Claude, but doing so through Cursor was very expensive. Moving forward, we’ll be shifting our workflow to use Claude Code directly inside Novi. I’m very happy with this setup so far and excited to see how much we can accomplish together.
— Michael