I Tried Pair Programming With Three Different AI Tools For a Month
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After a month of using Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code on real development tasks, no single tool dominated. Copilot excelled at inline autocomplete and small functions, Cursor shone in interactive multi-file editing, and Claude Code proved strongest for repository-level debugging and investigation. The key insight: productivity came not from raw code generation but from how much useful context each tool could apply before generating anything.
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