Creator's Coding Setup: Cursor 3 with GPT 5.4

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-04-09 · Open on X

Topics: AI Dev Tools & Productivity · Level: beginner

Summary

The creator recommends Cursor 3 with GPT 5.4 as his current AI coding setup. He says he hasn't used Claude Code for three days since switching. It's a personal tool recommendation, not a tutorial.

Key points

• The creator currently prefers Cursor 3 as his AI coding environment.
• He pairs it with GPT 5.4, which he calls 'awesome'.
• He switched away from Claude Code (unused for 3 days), which shows how fast coding-tool preferences change.

Resources mentioned

• Cursor · tool · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  AI-native code editor (VS Code with AI built in).
  Also in: GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash now in Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Grok Bot Can Now Hand Off Coding Tasks to Cursor (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Assistants (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Why Plan Mode Still Matters in AI Coding Agents (Codex, Claude, Cursor) (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 121 more
• GPT-5.4 · tool · openai.com · paid
  OpenAI frontier model (Thinking and Pro variants) for reasoning, coding and agents.
  Also in: Opinion: GPT-5.4 in Cursor 3 Replaces Opus for Coding (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Splitting AI Tools: Cursor 3 + GPT-5.4 for Code, Claude for Learning (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Open-Source GLM-5.1 Beats GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), GPT-5.4 Is Available in OpenAI Codex (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 2 more
• Claude Code · tool · code.claude.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Build agents and pipelines from the terminal; the guide's main agentic coding tool.
  Also in: Create Claude Code Plugins with /plugin-authoring (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 101 more

Try this

• Try Cursor 3.
• Use GPT 5.4 as the coding model.