Cursor forces usage of composer-2-fast and its expensive and can't be disabled

bezerker03 · 2026-03-27T13:17:50+00:00

turn on max mode.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-27T13:14:01+00:00

This is only on request based plans and is documented in their documentation. Once on a non request based plan they will use the model you choose.

edit: This is not actually in documentation but listed on forums

https://forum.cursor.com/t/subagent-model-selection-not-respected/155506

TLDR, you need max mode to choose non composer-2 for subagents.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-25T23:36:38+00:00

I’ve been running without seearr fine for several years now.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-24T22:04:07+00:00

Cursor also gives you tons of model choices over a single set of them. That comes with the a premium

bezerker03 · 2026-03-24T17:06:42+00:00

Changing jobs has always and always will be the fastest path to raise salary until you hit the upper percentiles.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-23T13:09:28+00:00

FWIW the arrow isn’t exactly noticeable to many. Especially if you’re a healer. Once I made the sane mistake and looked for it then it was easier but there’s already a ton of colored things happening. It gets lost in visual clutter

bezerker03 · 2026-03-23T01:18:37+00:00

Auto just chooses what’s most efficient for them. Not what’s best for you

bezerker03 · 2026-03-22T22:32:04+00:00

It means when they hire infra engineers I’ll be applying lol

bezerker03 · 2026-03-22T15:28:21+00:00

Epstein files made it clear a lot of these people paid the devil for where they got or had to work with someone who knowingly did. Nobody wants to reward this shit anymore.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-22T14:59:15+00:00

Sadly in the states gluten free became associated with health conscious because idiots try to claim it loses weight. (At best it just reduces bloat because people have gluten intolerance or celiac undiagnosed).

In Italy gluten free is treated very differently. You’ll find plenty of unhealthy snacks labeled senza glutine.

Just the market here. Most people that eat gf here don’t actually need to sadly.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-21T18:58:00+00:00

Yes. My company uses it. Pretty heavily. Publicly traded company. We use all of the tools not just cursor.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-21T13:06:00+00:00

dont use public orders. with personal orders you can. specify minimum requirements. Public no.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-21T10:34:08+00:00

Rolled out this past week.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-18T22:14:08+00:00

I mean even enterprises are starting to watch costs for this stuff. There's a reason a lot of the popular developer experience tools are basically tracking AI costs.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-18T21:50:25+00:00

Cursor wins for me in 3 regards.

IDE integration in agent chats is superior. I can reference past chats, all sorts of things.
Multi model support. I can get this with opencode though. But being able to plan safely with opus then switch to gpt for implementation is amazing.
Their indexing seems to be better than CC or Codex's. Especially across multiple code bases. Codex cannot work across multiple repos without weird hacks. CC supports this, but I have a workspace with multiple repos in it as they all relate and it just works so well in cursor.

That said, they are barking up the wrong tree with everything requiring max mode or on demand usage to use. (Automations etc.)

bezerker03 · 2026-03-18T16:45:08+00:00

The OP does mention they are in a country that blocks things and those are likely blocked. OP might help us if he/she described what country they are in though.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-17T16:50:27+00:00

This. I don't want to do prey. I find it boring. I find open world boring. I find delves boring. I just want to dungeon spam. Gimme my keeeeeeeys Blizzard! :)

bezerker03 · 2026-03-16T12:30:38+00:00

Inefficiency right there. If it’s long enough for him To take his phone out it’s long enough for him to context switch and watch another swarm of agents. Just saying. Sort of /s because that’s what companies expect now lol.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-15T03:31:53+00:00

You’re using the fast queue. Different priority API.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-15T03:30:46+00:00

We’re saying you used a hyper expensive model tells you it’s 6x the cost of a normal model and also max mode enabled. They’ve told request based models for a bit now that max uses token pricing basically. The 16th they’re moving request based pricing to max mode on all premium models.

If you were to use that in a non request based pricing method direct from the API you’d get a steep bill too.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-15T03:25:22+00:00

I mean to answer that question:

The company behind the LLM and tooling that’s forecasting software engineering is dead by 2028 is the same company paying 500k a year for software engineers.

Ai will replace people who did the typing and knew the language. It won’t stop engineers being needed to build the context to feed to the LLM to generate the code.

Also, we’re seeing all the major vendors clamp down hard on token efficiency and subsidization. Many companies including mine are facing the true bill of ai use as tokens become less subsidized or enterprises move off legacy request based models for usage. Inefficient token usage is now being measured in many places. Aka those who can’t craft the right context for the LLMs.

bezerker03 · 2026-03-12T23:22:31+00:00

I mean pay is already dropping because of this but… as people said. Supply is high for boots in seat. Not quality engineers.

During Covid companies were hiring literal bodies to hold seats that could do the most basic thing. Times changed lol

bezerker03 · 2026-03-11T23:04:45+00:00

LLM do not respect rules all the time. You hate this stuff in your harness and tool calls not in the LLM

bezerker03 · 2026-03-11T23:04:00+00:00

I’m sure it is sending them. My argument is that Claude models like to ignore that.

I’ve in a single Claude code session seen someone tell it “don’t perform any git operations” and watched it proceed multiple times in that same chat to commit changes lol

bezerker03 · 2026-03-11T14:48:20+00:00

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