I Kept Gamma and Quietly Dropped Cursor

I don't read landing pages, so when both Gamma and Cursor swore they were the answer I ran them on the same job instead.

Gamma restyles a whole presentation when the client changes their mind. What I didn't expect: exports to a shareable web link, not just a heavy file

Cursor takes the other lane: explains an unfamiliar file in plain language when you open it. applies a refactor across the project without you hunting every call site

Neither is clean, though. Gamma fine text tweaks fight the template. And Cursor the agent mode burns tokens fast if you don't scope the task.

Here's who should actually pick which.

Pick Gamma if you're a founder or PM who pitches often and hates fiddling with slides. Pick Cursor if you're a developer who wants to move from idea to running code without the boilerplate. I landed on Gamma for daily use and kept Cursor for the one thing it does that the other can't.

Last Tuesday I had twenty minutes and a real deadline. Gamma shipped it; Cursor gave me three options and a caveat. That's the whole difference.