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AI Coding Tools Ranked: Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex

Austin ranks Claude Code, Cursor, Z-Code, MuseCode, and Codex based on his experience using them for video production and custom visual styles. He explains his ratings and how the tools fit his workflow.

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0:00Ranking AI tools for creating AI generated content for creating motion graphics like this this and this Starting up strong

0:13we have Claude Code This is absolutely an S tier I fell in love again with Claude Code Anthropic is

0:22finally listening to their customers and they're finally doing a great job Opus 5 5 is outstanding It's my favorite

0:32daily driver period Next we have Curser and I'm going to give it a C tier But it just kind

0:41of sucks The videos you create with them are just kind of bad Only use it when you're completely out

0:49of usage and you have no other options Next we have Z Code I'm going to give it an F

0:57tier Z Code is just for some reason extremely bad at following the instructions and I don't really know why

1:05I'm not reading the code that is writing to create the videos I'm just dropping everything in and say go

1:12at it But Z Code does a horrible job I will never use it unless I absolutely have to Next

1:20we have Muse Code and this is a D tier It's also similarly really bad It can work if you

1:29have literally no other options but it's really really bad I honestly just don't recommend it We have Codex which

1:39is absolutely an S tier It is amazing particularly with the 200 per month plan It can run all day

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