i tried Claude and now i understand why people say their agent run for hours

By ThunderCoder34 · DISCUSSION · About Cursor

so i am using cursor for over 6 month now and the company that i work gave us Claude code. i always saw in in social media how people brag that Claude run for hours without stopping and for me the longest session with cursor was 20-30 minutes with no stops. so long story short now i understand why it just that Claude code is so fucking slow

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StormNinja586: I’d rather a slow correct solution than speed running a wrong one.

PixelSurfer27: Comments on speed aside, I'm highly sceptical of the output of a 30-minute long session. If it runs for more than 5 minutes you've probably asked it to do to much and will likely contain errors, either in the implementation or more likely it just won't give you exactly what you envisioned. There is

NeonVibe275: Opus 4.5 in Cursor is super great. Opus 4.6 in Cursor is a token-burning timeout festival. Opus 4.5 isn't available in Claude Code, you have to use 4.6. It's absurdly slow and token-heavy there too, all I saw was their silly "Thinking" messages that were fanciful jokes instead of just saying "Thin

SwiftEcho377: I never experience having more than 30 mins. Currently I'm trying their Claude Desktop and I'm pretty happy with it. But yeah, it is slow now compared last year. What is /fast now was what Claude Code before.

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