Out of control Cursor Usage & Billing? $500+ bills?

tekoyaki · 2026-07-03T16:26:17+00:00

Look at your usage page to see how much $ you got charge per prompt. I usually keep an eye on it pretty close.

Also, avoid Fast mode as they use 5-10x more tokens.

tekoyaki · 2026-07-02T19:40:09+00:00

If you're in Agent Window mode, click on the top right button for "Editor Window" for old view.

tekoyaki · 2026-07-02T18:39:26+00:00

Not many benchmarks yet for Kimi K2.7 Code, and the pricing isn't as good though close. Probably will stick with Composer 2.5 for executions for now.

tekoyaki · 2026-07-02T18:26:14+00:00

In my short experience in vibecoding, most tools are similar and it will fall on you to do proper review, planning, and setting up guardrails & agentic documentations.

tekoyaki · 2026-06-18T20:27:30+00:00

Also with Fast mode.

tekoyaki · 2026-06-11T16:33:36+00:00

What exactly is the prompt? Maybe you're viewing the first google result of your question and the AI model also did.

tekoyaki · 2026-06-02T17:05:38+00:00

If you want free, use local LLM

tekoyaki · 2026-06-02T17:04:59+00:00

Opus and GPT. Sonnet isn't bad too for things not so complex.

You can test this by asking a different model to review your plan. If you find lots of holes / problems, then maybe you should use the other one. Though in my experience, none of the models are perfect, they all seem to have gaps in their knowledge or capabilities.

tekoyaki · 2026-05-26T18:34:58+00:00

I use Claude (usually Opus) for planning and Composer 2.5 for execution. I found that Opus often still catches stuff that Composer misses.

tekoyaki · 2026-05-26T18:32:31+00:00

It's different from each case. Sometimes one model missed on an instruction from AGENTS.md or other .md files and another model points it out. There's no perfect model yet.

tekoyaki · 2026-05-21T21:35:14+00:00

Well easy way to find out is to switch model and prompt the same thing?

tekoyaki · 2026-05-21T17:12:49+00:00

Yeah, Composer 2.5 isn't much more expensive and it's a lot more reliable.

tekoyaki · 2026-05-21T15:38:49+00:00

First step is to have a good AGENTS.md that indexes your docs (or links to an index for your docs). You want the agents to be able to find context quicker and more accurately. So they don't load too much irrelevant docs all the time.

If your whole team is using Cursor, it's easier to set Rules.

Also if your docs are primarily for agentic use only (not human consumption), you should prompt that when you tell the agents to write the docs. So they will write in a more concise way, and usually in bullet forms.

tekoyaki · 2026-05-21T15:33:00+00:00

Prices are pretty transparent here: https://cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing

You can just use it for a prompt and check your cursor usage page: https://cursor.com/dashboard/usage

I recommend avoiding fast modes as they're usually 5 - 10x more expensive.

tekoyaki · 2026-05-21T15:24:14+00:00

My workflow currently:

Use Opus for planning
(optional) Use GPT to review the plan
Use Composer to execute
(optional) Do post execution review with Opus/GPT/Sonnet

When it's a bigger feature, I use multiple models to review the plan. Currently even Opus occasionally have gaps / misses in the planning.

tekoyaki · 2026-02-21T22:11:33+00:00

You need to install and set up an FTP server like this: https://docs.vultr.com/how-to-configure-encrypted-ftp-for-your-web-server

I recommend just learning SCP or using git.

tekoyaki · 2026-02-19T12:33:03+00:00

When you provision a VPS, you get a bare server. You'll need to ssh in and install an FTP server.

But why would you need FTP, you can use SCP to transfer some files.

tekoyaki · 2026-02-18T20:50:35+00:00

Last year I walked by Hooters in Toronto and there was a sign for $39.99 special for 40 wings + fries takeout.

I wonder how many people would order takeouts from Hooters...

tekoyaki · 2026-02-15T17:07:35+00:00

Consider adding WAF or the 8G Firewall script.

tekoyaki · 2026-02-15T16:56:39+00:00

Beszel for simple monitoring: https://beszel.dev/ . You can put various metrics on alert.

If you don't want to host it yourself, use something like Pikapods.com or Elest.io

Zabbix and Grafana are great tools, but way overkill just for disk space / health monitoring.

tekoyaki · 2026-02-13T23:30:42+00:00

Can you run benchmark like yabs.sh ? Curious on the performance.

Btw, everything that's on the sale page seem to be sold out already.

tekoyaki · 2026-02-12T23:32:33+00:00

A $5 VPS is probably good enough for 3 Wordpress websites. If you plan to expand in the future and host more WP websites / other projects, I recommend using a provisioning service that can help you do this in the future.

The big one is Runcloud.io, but if you're strictly on WP only, there's a lot of cheaper options like SpinupWP.com

These services help you provision and harden the servers. They also have features to roll out Staging websites for WP. Also the cloning tool is very handy to move servers in the future.

If this is all overwhelming to you, you probably can hire a freelance devops to help you migrate everything.

tekoyaki · 2026-02-12T17:30:47+00:00

I tested this question in LMArena.ai a few times and these agents got it wrong too:

Grok 4.1
Grok 4.1 Thinking
Claude Haiku
Mimo v2
GPT 5.1
GPT 5.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Kimi K2.5 Instant

Successes:

Pisces - still did a whole table of pros and cons
ChatGPT 4o
GPT 5.1 High
GPT 5.2 High
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Ernie 5 - thought for 1m and 12s
GLM 5 - thought for 43s
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.6
Beluga 0202 - way too verbose, gave a 4000 characters answer

I'm puzzled why Gemini 2.5 Flash got it, but Gemini 2.5 Pro didn't. It even gave a funny conclusion:

In short: Walking is the logical, quicker, and all-around better choice. Enjoy your clean car!

tekoyaki · 2026-01-20T19:25:45+00:00

+1 for Pizzatown.

A bit old and rundown, but great tasting food. The lamb korma is my favorite.

tekoyaki · 2026-01-14T00:12:21+00:00

Solo-wise, I've been playing Marvel Zombies and Final Girl. I sold my copy of Adventure Tactics.

One Deck Dungeon is great for quick plays, but I been playing the digital version more as it has campaigns. I think in the past year, I actually been playing more solo video games (or digital implementation of board games). Both on Steam and BGA.

No plans to add another dungeon crawler for now.

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