Six months in: split the work by tool, don't pick one winner

The New Stack's hands-on retrospective comparing Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Antigravity lands on a role-splitting workflow rather than a single "best" tool: terminal agents (Claude Code, Codex) for deep autonomous multi-file changes and refactors, IDE-integrated tools (Cursor) for tight interactive editing and review, and cloud/background agents for parallel delegation. The recurring failure mode they flag is context drift between tools — keep a shared rules file (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md) as the single source of truth so each agent respects the same conventions.

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Sources: The New Stack