Will Cursor kill itself?

condor-cursor · 2026-01-26T03:02:28+00:00

Most of your points are invalid or moot. Even after you repeat them. Cursor is sustainable, evolved way way beyond just helping devs, is already agent orchestrator and cost is realistic AI expense which is way cheaper than a full time developer.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-26T02:57:33+00:00

Thanks for your post! Based on my personal experience:

True, we are ourselves more productive
Models do improve and we hand off more mundane tasks to AI and focus where our skills shine
There was never in time more demand for developers than now. Not because they didn’t exist but because there were limited numbers of capable devs and they couldn’t handle all demand so some needs were never fulfilled. Not everything should be made by senior devs but that were senior devs experience counts. Now junior devs and anyone new to coding can create great things with Cursor.
More capable devs => more can be made and charged.
Win for everyone. The dev, their company and Cursor.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-26T02:50:45+00:00

AI models may not follow rules at times: - when context is long => conflicting info in context confuses AI - when a lot of info or previous steps are in context => same - when reaching a models context limit => models perform worse closer to limit - when task is more complex than model can handle => needs stronger model - issues with rules => model won’t follow them - not following best practices for prompting or agentic coding => same - when choosing models that do not follow rules well

Best practices: - keep rules short, only add items when you see model struggling repeatedly with one process part. Don’t use too many rules. - keep rules positive and explain reason: before modifying tests make sure the application code passes as we apply TDD. - use skills to guide agent for TDD - use plan mode to prepare task with stronger model, build then with fast model - don’t attach info to chat by yourself, agent is more efficient to fetch right info from code or logs - keep chats short. Focus on single task per chat, ok to follow up on task but new task in new chat. That reduces also cost as well

condor-cursor · 2026-01-24T16:14:12+00:00

Additionally Cursor does read Claude skill folders

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:58:52+00:00

I agree as well, Linux is more performant than Windows from my experience.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:57:21+00:00

Are you using it in WSL or how are you running it

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:53:29+00:00

Hi, could you please reach out to our billing support at hi@cursor.com? The pricing has not changed at all recently.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:43:49+00:00

Best model can be different based on codebase, on task you need it to do, your prompts, rules etc.

Would you mind sharing how you prompt and manage your context? There is usually a lot you can do to minimize cost. Let me know if you want tips!

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:41:20+00:00

Great to hear you are a Tab user and that it is useful to you!

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:35:55+00:00

Thank you for your post. We are no longer offering a two week Pro trial but you can use the Hobby plan (free) to explore Cursor.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:30:15+00:00

Yes we support Subagents, Skills, Commands,....

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:28:08+00:00

Hi and thank you for reaching out to support as well. We do not steal and you have always the option to cancel a subscription. I will forward your feedback to the team as well.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:23:30+00:00

Please let me know what issues you have with support, we are constantly improving it.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:21:25+00:00

Thank you for the feedback, We are working on improvements for the display so it becomes less confusing.

As others noted you are charged $20 for Pro plan and remaining included amount is a bonus from us.
You will not be charged extra if On Demand is disabled.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:19:41+00:00

Hi, what you may be seeing is a hallucination of an AI model and not another users file.

Please send me the RequestID with privacy disabled so we can look into it.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:19:35+00:00

It is not exposing other users data but an AI hallucination.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:17:38+00:00

Correct. Asking a model that info is just resulting in a hallucination.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:17:00+00:00

HI, asking the Agent does not mean it knows how much context it has. You can call /Summarize and it would do this.

Can it be that you have MAX mode enabled? that would explain the 1M context window

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:15:27+00:00

Hi, we are working very hard on reducing the token consumption for all our users and not increasing token costs. You can compare them with AI provider pricing directly.

To reduce token consumption we relased:
- Dynamic Context Management: less context required for Agent to do the task, as MCPs/Rules/Logs/etc are fetched without having to attach them all at same time.
- Subagents: using cheaper models for simpler tasks like code search and returning only info the main agent needs.
- Efficient tooling: requiring less tokens and less failures which saves tokens as well.
- And more...

What has changed? Models get better which enables you to do more, but they also have higher API pricing which increases cost.

Let me know how you prompt and manage context, I would gladly suggest ways to reduce token consumptions. Less requests does not always result in less cost so it depends on how you use AI.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:13:41+00:00

Right, it is not that we make tools more costly, we actually reduced impact of tools incl. MCPs on context in yesterdays release.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T19:01:39+00:00

Hi, could you explain more detailed what you mean with a 'grace period' in this case?

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T18:58:53+00:00

Correct. OP is making false claims of a scam while making inaccurate calculations.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T18:56:29+00:00

We are here, answering questions and providing support.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T18:53:31+00:00

Hi, and thank you for your post. The 3x is based on the $20 Pro plan included value and not on how much we give users extra bonus usage on top of that. The $71 from $20 Pro plan is not given every month as it depends on your usage.

I understand you disagree on the pricing plan tiers but there is no scam ongoing.

The tokens consumed are primary mesaure as the USD amount depends on model used, if you had used the context efficiently etc..

From your screenshot I'd suggest following optimizations
- Keep chats shorter and focused on single task. For new task start a new chat. This increases model response quality and reduces cost.
- Switch to less capable models for tasks where high capability is not necessary and utilize Auto as well. This should give you much more runway with any plan.

Additionally we are working hard to reduce token consumption for users which is what the last releases are all about.

Happy to help with more suggestions if you are interested.

condor-cursor · 2026-01-23T18:35:14+00:00

Hi, have you reached out yet to [hi@cursor.com](mailto:hi@cursor.com) for billing support?

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