"AI has become an important part of our development processes. As with all tools, you need to choose the right one for your development workflow. So, in this article, we'll look at leveraging two AI tools designed for software development, Claude and Cursor, and compare and contrast them for Django web development. While Claude is an AI model that can be easily integrated into PyCharm, Cursor is an AI editor built on top of VSCode."
"Process To make the comparison as fair as possible, I used the same prompts for both tools. Since they both required some improvements after the first prompt, the subsequent prompts were different because they produced different issues. None of the prompts I provided were very technical; I didn't specify models, endpoints, or anything similar since I wanted to compare how well they do creating an entire web application from scratch."
"The first prompt, whose purpose was to create the whole application, was detailed and well explained in terms of requirements but not implementation. I told them what I expected from the app, which technologies to use, and that they should follow best practices. The app they were asked to create was a party organizer application, the same as in my HTMX course."
"The requirements were the following: The app should manage three resources: Party (date, time, location, invitation, organizer) Gifts (linked to a specific party, with name, price, and link) Guests (linked to a specific party, with name and attending status) Users should be able to create new parties or edit existing ones. The party organizer should also be able to add, edit, and delete gifts, as well as update guest attendance statuses."
Claude integrates into PyCharm; Cursor is an AI editor built on top of VSCode. The comparison applied identical initial prompts for both tools to create a complete Django web application, with subsequent prompts adapted only when different issues arose. Prompts were intentionally non-technical, omitting model names and endpoints, to evaluate end-to-end application generation. The target application is a party organizer managing Parties, Gifts linked to parties, and Guests with attendance statuses. Users must create and edit parties, and organizers must add, edit, delete gifts and update guest attendance. Iterative prompts requested tests and new functionalities.
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