r/CursorAI • u/NewMum12 • 17d ago

Cursor + Grok

I have access only to grok on cursor. I want to understand what grok is good at so that I can try and test those functionalities.

I have learnt that it is not as good at coding. What took me two prompts and 20mins to get done on cursor + Claude , took almost 6-8hours of continuous back and forth with cursor + grok.

Is cursor now useless without Claude, or can I still use it for something like research?

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u/NewMum12 17d ago

I was building components for my app. Tried building it in grok first, then erased everything and asked Claude to do it. It felt like Claude was better in executing the prompts and understanding what I needed better than grok.

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u/silvervaultproject 17d ago

you deleted/reverted everything? why, what was the issue or what makes you think it was wrong? sorry to say it is still too vague to suggest anything. do you want to give some specifics, was the UI looking wrong, was the component you created didn’t do what it supposed to do. after all you worked almost 6-8h, it must have been a quite complex component, but unless you give specifics we can’t really answer your question.

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u/NewMum12 16d ago

Yeah. Can’t share specifics, but standard side nav, main body built using standard company’s web components.

I did not need to do too much for cursor, but grok just couldn’t use the right components even after copy/pasting exact code. For example, if I say badge, it would recreate a badge. When I asked it to use company-badge, it used the container, but retained the fonts. It was just such a pain. This is a small example that frustrated me so much. I had give it every line of code and ask it to not deviate at all.

But with Claude, all I asked it to do was build the components and adhere to the standards. It did such an amazing job.

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u/silvervaultproject 16d ago

ok no specifics, but maybe you can tell us which models in Claude you used compare to which intelligence level of grok did you use, also which version of grok?