Cursor, Codex or Claude Code: what developers should choose in 2026
A year on the $20 plans: whose limits survive a working day, which model is worth using for what, and why I stayed on Claude.
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A year on the $20 plans: whose limits survive a working day, which model is worth using for what, and why I stayed on Claude.
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Not prompt length but references: the tells that give a generated page away, and the process that gets you a page without them.
Claude knows the repo. Give it somewhere better than a 600-line chat to leave the result.
Codex can refactor a repo. Remembering why next week is a different sport.
Stop being the human middleware between Cursor and your task board.
Linear is bigger and deeper. Kelvia does less. That is partly a weakness and partly the point.
Trello has a giant head start. Kelvia has one stubborn founder and a different idea about agent work.
It was a runner and a board in one. Replacing each is a different problem, and only one of them is ours.
A SQLite file on your laptop cannot show a client anything. Contract work has a second reader.