Claude Code vs Cursor: After 6 Months Side by Side, Here’s My Solo Consultant Pick

Code editor display, dark theme — Claude Code vs Cursor comparison for solo consultants

Claude Code vs Cursor — six months of side-by-side use on solo consultant work. I have paid Claude Code at $20/month and Cursor Pro at $20/month, used them daily across three to five client projects in parallel, and kept a running log of which one I opened first. The first three months I treated them … Read more

GPT-5.5 Just Dropped — Here’s What the Numbers Say Before I Test It Against Claude Code

AI coding terminal on a laptop, solo operator workspace

Content mode: Informed — Field Report. I haven’t personally tested GPT-5.5 against Claude Code yet — this is what the public benchmarks and pricing pages say before I commit to a paid month of side-by-side use. I haven’t used this yet, but here’s what the data shows. OpenAI released GPT-5.5 yesterday (April 23, 2026), and … Read more