The 2026 AI Coding Conversation Has Moved Past Cursor vs Claude Code

I went down another rabbit hole this morning, this time reading the 2026 roundups on Juejin, and the pattern that jumped out is that the AI coding tool conversation has moved on from "which one wins" to something more interesting. Everyone is still arguing about Cursor versus Claude Code, but the people shipping real work have already moved past that question. The thing I keep noticing is that the admired-vote gap from the Stack Overflow 2025 survey is doing a lot of work. Claude Code at 46 per...