Accel VC Says Vibe Coding Market Can Support Both Cursor and Claude Code

Summary

Miles Clements, a partner at VC firm Accel, argued on the "20VC" podcast that the AI-assisted coding market is large enough for both Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor to thrive. His comments came after Anthropic's release of its Opus 4.6 model prompted many developers and founders on X to publicly declare they were switching from Cursor to Claude Code. An Insight Partners cofounder had previously suggested on a podcast that Cursor is falling behind. Clements called Claude Code an "amazing prod