I haven't tried working with Cursor for real yet but I can vouch for Claude with filesystem, fetch and optionally a few other mcp servers enabled relevant to whatever you are doing works really good.
I still haven't found a setup that can fully comprehend a large "enterprise" codebase though. The scope has to be narrowed in to get something useful.
But for almost everything else and especially to do things where I previously would have stalled due to lack of time when hitting a learning code. It is a game changer. I can do things in hours that would have taken months before - or Claude can really..
I tried to describe a somewhat similar experience that I had last week here. The 4k char limit made me cut most of it away though.
I still haven't found a setup that can fully comprehend a large "enterprise" codebase though. The scope has to be narrowed in to get something useful.
But for almost everything else and especially to do things where I previously would have stalled due to lack of time when hitting a learning code. It is a game changer. I can do things in hours that would have taken months before - or Claude can really..
I tried to describe a somewhat similar experience that I had last week here. The 4k char limit made me cut most of it away though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43478600