Natik's Journal

Notes on enginering leadership and software development.

Claude Code can turn anything into Cursor

I got the memo pretty late, but you can just run Claude Code in a terminal in a split pane in any editor, and get as close to Cursor-style agentic IDEs as you need?

Zed with Claude in a vertical terminal pane
Zed with Claude in a vertical terminal pane

The setup for this is embarrasingly easy — install Claude with npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code and launch it in a terminal inside of your IDE. Happy coding.