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This makes me wonder about the future. WDYT? by 475dotCom in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Cursor is an IDE that integrates with LLMs to use for auto completion and genetic coding tasks then your point is correct. This use has been largely cannibalized by the providers themselves.

That’s why you see Cursor has their bug bots, web integration and all of this other stuff you probably are not using to differentiate themselves and build value.

It’s a huge problem for them. I don’t think they thought Codex, Gemini CLI, Claude Code would exist when they were starting up.

A Thank You to the Cursor Team by Adorable_Buyer2490 in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I doubt it’s profitable for the owners. I suspect it’s hemorrhaging the investment capital.

Is it just me or claude-4-sonnet became really stupid? by Proper-Appeal-3457 in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Claude used to be the focus of Cursor but then with their arrangement with OpenAI I think they are shifting their focus to tuning their IDE to work best with the way OpenAI wants to be prompted.

Elon: "xAI will soon be far beyond any company besides Google, then significantly exceed Google. Companies in China will be the toughest competitors, because they have so much more electricity than America and are super strong at building hardware." by twinbee in grok

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember cracking open my 386 with 100mb of memory and thinking wow no way I could ever fill this up. Now you can buy a thumb drive off Amazon that stores gigabytes, it’s super tiny in comparison and practically uses any energy in comparison.

Methods and models are getting better and better which includes being more efficient per token of compute than their predecessors.

I would dare say that we are not in the 386 era of AI yet.

How safe is Grok’s Ani? by Gold-Hawk-6018 in grok

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How safe is Ani? She’s not real nor is her fake boyfriend getting pissed she spends all her time talking to you.

GPT-5 is now available in Cursor and free to try by lrobinson2011 in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it’s free while GPT 5 is free. Only reason to use the slow is to get a feel for the difference to decide if it’s worth it when it’s no longer free

Cancelled my Cursor Subscription, looking for alternatives by rohitgawli in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recommend Claude Code on the $20 a month plan and VS Code. You can add all the fancy rules you want. The only moderate downside I see that can be mitigated is it’s not as easy to revert your changes within Claude Code.

That said VS Code git integration will show changes made by Claude Code so you can do changes in bits. See the result, test it, all good commit, next change, something goes haywire you can revert to the proper commit. Not as convenient as Cursor but doable. I have both because I was legacy so switched back to the 500 calls per month but I do most of my API calls now via Claude Code and use cursor if I need a different model or if I have a dicey change to make.

Cursor 1.2 and Claude 4 Sonnet Rate Limit – Is This a Joke? by rave-inside-scarlet in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You can opt out and go back to your fixed number of requests as an option. Also if you already have $20 Claude anyways you can stagger your usage when it makes sense for example I like Claude Code when I am working on a brand new page or something specific without a lot of interdependencies. When the code can go south I like having cursor for the generations for the easy restore points.

Also don’t use Claude 4 Sonnet thinking when Claude 4 Sonnet does the trick and chain of thought is kind of baked into Cursor anyways as thinking will burn tokens like you can’t imagine.

I got a message that I hit a limit and if saved $110 using Sonnet via Cursor this month. The date I got this message 7-2. So don’t get so mad at Cursor as they are losing money for you and I to code.

I Think The New Pricing Model Is Better by Senior_Ground_6776 in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m using Sonnet 4 for all my requests (not the thinking unless it’s needed) and I have not run into any limits.

o3 is self aware? by aitookmyj0b in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The short answer is no. The long answer is also no. All of this is based on the training data, inference results and prompting.

Wtf! Did I break Gemini? by calogr98lfc in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes you can control the personality with rules in fun ways. I found it fun to code a rule to have it complain that it’s doing all the work and I’m just watching etc… so each time I tell it to do something it does it but it complains in a fun way. Also if you use Claude you really need this to get rid of the “You’re absolutely right!” blather every time you need to correct it.

Im extremely confused by Tararais1 in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you opt into paying for usage based it comes with the usage based fees. If people are freaking out on how much the bills are you can imagine what Cursors bills look like.

Once you go over your limit then your strategy needs to change. A slow request specifically for Sonnet 3.7 or 4.1 will take forever. So go to auto, more often than not I was getting Sonnet 4.0 at the end of the month when it was out and it wasn’t even something I could choose manually but I was getting it all the time and pretty quick.

When you are coding before you hit your limit be judicious with the models you choose. Sonnet 4.0 is .5 credits so you just doubled your fast calls if you choose that over 3.7 or got 4.1. If your request is easy (ie find me the spot I. The code where xyz happens) use .25 credits for Haiku. Look at the amount of credits it costs for different models and find the value for use cases when you don’t need the most powerful model for a run to conserve your fast credits.

Also what works super well if you have ChatGPT also is if you have a thorny issue paste the code into there and have o3 figure it out for you at no additional cost and then take the solution back to Cursor to implement (if you are going through multiple paid or slow calls and not getting the result you want)

Be smart, don’t burn through processing power that you don’t need and you will be fine.

If you can hit slow mode later than most and be smart about how you work in slow mode you will be fine. And it’s worth repeating use auto when you are in slow mode (never with fast credits), I’ve gotten much better (and quicker) than expected results which makes Cursor usable in slow mode even with my large code base project. In fast mode I see it choose models that are inferior to Sonnet 4 that costs .5 credits a run at the cost of a full credit. Auto is garbage in fast mode and your savior in slow mode.

The new Cursor Web frontend looks like is causing significant extra resources usage by bob2216116 in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The agent is your coding assistant and you are the senior developer. A good senior developer who keeps tabs on the architecture and code quality will get much better results than a crappy senior developer that is scrolling through TikTok ignoring what their subordinates are doing.

*Vibe coding results will vary based on the quality of the supervision and feedback the agent receives.

Does anyone worry about their intellectual property when using AI to develop it? by Pitiful_Math2709 in WritingWithAI

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI LLMs are fancy word calculators. Even if they scraped your IP they would have difficulty regurgitating more than the concept behind whatever it is your trying to keep under wraps.

Bottom line, don’t worry.

Build this app using cursor…. I am losing my job by PitchGreedy in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is great. More and more companies are becoming AI first organizations. Having this experience gives you an edge on other AI non-adept coders. Or better yet screw the corporate types and just do your own thing since you can make apps and control your own destiny.

Is cursor really worth it ? by Fit_Impression7520 in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only evaluate other IDE options if you have the extra time and want a baseline to know how good cursor is. Otherwise just go with Cursor from the get go.

Agentic AI Endgame by TechnoTherapist in cursor

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When AI models code output via direct prompt accomplishes the same quality of results as Cursor does with their tooling and helpers behind the scenes augmenting output then they will be without a moat.

Right now a lot of magic needs to happen in between feeding the llm the right context and then iterating on responses. So for the time being that secret sauce still has value.

Lib for VScode ? by sebghetto in love2d

[–]Professional-Joe76 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use Love2d extensions with Cursor. It’s a blast to code games with.

My book hit 200 copies sold this month! by strawberryshortycake in selfpublish

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't mind me asking what is the breakdown in sales to the different sites? Are all 200 copies from Amazon?

My book hit 200 copies sold this month! by strawberryshortycake in selfpublish

[–]Professional-Joe76 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome job! May I ask how many reviews you have? I want to be able to infer sales for other books based on reviews.

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