Accel partner says vibe-coding market can support Cursor and Claude Code

Miles Clements, a partner at Accel, argued that the expanding vibe coding market can support multiple companies and defended Cursor amid comparisons to Anthropic's Claude Code. After Anthropic released its latest model, Opus 4.6, founders and developers posted on X that they were ditching Cursor for Claude Code.

Clements said, "This market is growing enormously, and I don't think a lot of these companies are actually experiencing success at the expense of the others." He offered two reasons Claude Code's improvements don't necessarily hurt Cursor: the tools are bringing many new cohorts of users online, and consumption per customer is increasing.

Clements said people who would not have been software developers a year ago can be developers with these tools. Critics have raised cost and capability concerns—Chamath Palihapitiya said his company needs to migrate off Cursor because it's too expensive, and Insight Partners cofounder Jerry Murdock called Cursor obsolete.

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