[voidsnax]

Before Claude Code, out of the alternatives you mentioned, I'd only tried Windsurf. I find Claude Code to be roughly comparable to Windsurf in terms of capabilities, but I can use it from my terminal. I'm much more at home in a terminal than I am in VSCode (which Windsurf is a fork of).

[dhc02]

Oh wow you owe it to yourself to try aider then. Architect mode especially, where you use one (usually reasoning) model to plan and one (usually Claude) to write code, is pretty awesome.