The environment isn't the only difference, it's not "do you prefer CLI or IDE or Web" because they behave differently. Claude Code and Claude web and Claude through Cursor won't give you identical outputs for the same question.
It's not like running a tool in your IDE or CLI where the only difference is the interface. It would be like if gcc ran from your IDE had faster compile times, but gcc run from the CLI gives better optimizations.
The fact that no one is recommending any baseline to start with proves the point that it's confusing. And we haven't even touched on Sonnet v Opus
It's not like running a tool in your IDE or CLI where the only difference is the interface. It would be like if gcc ran from your IDE had faster compile times, but gcc run from the CLI gives better optimizations.
The fact that no one is recommending any baseline to start with proves the point that it's confusing. And we haven't even touched on Sonnet v Opus