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Founder; Software engineer at Independent.
Tools Michael Shimeles has publicly discussed or demonstrated using. Curated by Magpie's editorial team from podcasts, posts, and public stacks.
Michael Shimeles runs the Ras Mic YouTube channel and a Toronto-based software studio and AI consultancy. He's a full-stack engineer with production apps that have processed $2M+ in transactions. Content covers Cursor, Claude Code, MCP and agentic engineering for software builders.
Shimeles teaches Claude Code as the agentic coding tool he switched to from Cursor, with a full walkthrough of why Claude Code is outperforming other AI coding agents and what it's like to ship a real app with it from start to finish. He frames Claude Code as the more flexible primitive for production work, and his 'Claude Code Replaced Cursor for Me' framing is a direct, public switch endorsement.
Shimeles teaches Cursor as the inline AI editor in his earlier content, with deep walkthroughs of frameworks and prompting strategies for getting Cursor to ship production code. His later content is more honest about pushing past Cursor toward Claude Code for agentic builds, but he treats Cursor as the right starting point for engineers new to AI coding.
Shimeles uses Claude alongside V0 and Cursor in his web-app build workflow, walking through how the three tools chain together: V0 for component scaffolding, Claude for nuanced reasoning, Cursor for inline edits. He treats Claude as the heavy-lift LLM for builds where output quality matters more than raw speed.
Last researched May 10, 2026
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