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I don’t understand. Everybody keeps telling me that LLMs are easily capable of replacing pretty much every software developer on this planet. And now they complain that $71 a day (or even $200 a month) is too much for such amazing tech? /s
Compare a $2,400/yr subscription with the average annual software developer’s salary of ~$125,000/yr.
Not gonna lie, it’s fun reading those reddit posts from vibe coders, squealing like stuck pigs because their heavily subsidized code extruder stopped working.
it’s near as joyous as the tesla subs
The users who choose Cursor are hardcore vibe addicts. They are tech incompetents who somehow BSed their way into a developer job. They cannot code without a vibe coding bot. I compared chatbots to gambling and cocaine before, and Cursor fans are the most abject gutter krokodil addicts.
They’re also easily comparable to psychics in how they con people, and of course there’s all the reports of them crippling critical thinking and generally making you stupider.
So, these things are essentially brainrot-as-a-service.
My job gave us all Cursor licenses and pushed the app to our laptops. It was defaulted to “Max” mode which the app describes as “Enables maximum content windows. For advanced users that are cost insensitive.” Not sure if that’s the Cursor default or how our desktop people set it, curious what other users see. It’s the second drop-down from the left in the chat pane.
don’t forget to press the button lots! bet they’re using it as a metric!
“yeah tried it real hard like you said boss. all its ideas were bad and i rejected them, but it’ll get there! stand strong! diamond hands!”
From this link in the article:
Cursor uses a combination of our custom models, as well as models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. […] Auto automatically routes to different frontier models based on capacity.
Uhm, since I don’t use any of this crap… can someone explain what Cursor actually does? I mean… when it’s using an “external model”, I assume that means they just use OpenAI/Anthropic/etc as a backend service? (Which means even with the current price increase it is indirectly still heavily subsidized…) What service does Cursor even provide then? Do they just prepend user prompts with some unhinged garbage and then send it off to OpenAI etc? Why are people paying for it… is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?
Why are people paying for it… is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?
Even the vscode socials are taking the piss:
($10 is the copilot subscription apparently)
It really irks me when people put the dollar sign after the number.
It’s a stupid thing that
- exists only in English as far as I know, every other language puts it after the number,
- is not used consistently (since you still write 25¢ and not ¢25),
- doesn’t follow the way you read it (it’s “five dollars” not “dollar five”).
It’s one of those places where yes, the spelling rules say otherwise, but the rule is fucking stupid so anarchy it is.
I’m more irked by “less”, the noun there is dollars so it should be “fewer”…
Tell that to French Canadians. This is the standard in Québec.
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Also Microsoft spontaneously deciding that they will just turn vscode into free cursor can’t be helping their prospects.
Great. First, my AI girlfriend drops her tables because I ran out of tokens, and I can’t buy more tokens because I can’t write code anymore, because Cursor is too expensive. Next, you’ll be telling me I can’t jork it to LLM hentai! I mean, what are even doing here??? (jk)
Just got a bill for “extra” cursor fees. This is on top of Cursor Pro as well as paid Claude and ChatGPT plans.
Guessing they’re going to try to move everyone up to enterprise so they can maximize revenues. It was a fun ride while it lasted.
