What people previously said about Cursor

“Claude code is WAY cheaper than Cursor. Cursor users get ripped off with token costs compared to a direct subscription with Anthropic.”

“Our times at GH didn’t overlap much but hearing the fact that he’s working at cursor increases my estimation of their engineering org by leaps and bounds.”

“Cursor kept changing its ui, and I found that separating the agentic app from the editor to be cleaner for me. Functionally, you can do the same workflows either way.”

“Cursor, Jet Brains AI assistant etc are unnecessary and outdated middle harnesses. CC and codex directly are just superior.”

“Cursor is a paid for app. VS Code is free.”

“Claude Code just worked a lot better than Cursor when I started using it, and I haven’t bothered trying Cursor’s agents again.”

“I don't like the IDE integration of agents, or at least how I've seen it implemented. I have multiple instances of Claude Code running in the background, potentially in worktrees, and I use git diffs to review work in the IDE when done.”

“I use both. Cursor when I want to see the diffs and hop around files. Claude Code when I just want it to grind in the terminal. Not missing much, just different surfaces.”

“I want nothing to do with Cursor or Elon Musk, so no thank you, no questions here.”

“Cursor was much much more expensive for me. I was on team, they only give u a standard amount and charge by usage afterwards.”

“I just like VS Code. I don't see the point of switching to Cursor.”

“Financially the Claude Max plan limits work well for how I work.”

“I use cursor just to open Claude code.”

“When I switched from cursor it felt expensive. Now, I use CC or ChatGPT from VSCode via extension or terminal.”

“At this point cursor is pretty amazing, you've got everything CC does and more. A year ago cursor was not what it is today.”

“yes this reminded me my frustrations with cursor changing its layout all the time. I cancelled the plan in the end.”

“Aside from quality and accuracy, Cursor itself is painfully slow. It takes 30-60 seconds to start the IDE. Even leaving it idle was ridiculously heavy on my CPU.”

“I used both and Cursor is eating up a ton of extra resources and the token cost if I use the Claude models is higher than in a direct Claude subscription. Also next-gen models usually come to Cursor a bit later, or with smaller context windows.”

“If Cursor works for you there is no reason to switch.”

“I switched from Cursor to Claude, the main reason being cost. I get way more bang for my buck buying tokens directly from Claude.”

“Cursor is a middleman paying enterprise costs for AI inference. The subscription plans are heavily 'subsidized' for Anthropic & OpenAI ([with Claude](https://she-llac.com/claude-limits) you get \~20.3x the usage per dollar with a sub vs api, usage limits were increased by 50% in May so that blog post 13.5x figure is stale).”

“Cursor doesn't have really subscription. I mean it does, but when using it only, usage is over really fast.”

“I prefer the cursor Editor to every other AI agent.”

“Claude code subscription is subsidized way more than cursor sub”

“I've been using Cursor for most of my day-to-day dev work, and I'm genuinely curious about why so many developers seem to prefer Claude Code.”

“A binary planting vulnerability in the Cursor IDE that lets a malicious git.exe file, placed at the root of a repository, run automatically the moment a developer”

“cursor now wants your code”

“the first thing that happened after SpaceX acquired Cursor was pumping all of the data Cursor had acquired into Grok training.”

“Of course, cursor is going to be even worse than github in that realm.”

“Cursor should be leading the new things that replace them.”

“Cursor and Mercedes Benz is a weird comparison. One company is working on the future technology while the other one is stuck in the last centuries technology which is being phased out.”

“ahh so thats the game plan: train codebases even if they are not written in or by by Cursor agents.”

“> Cursor is allegedly worth $60BInflated valuation of buyout, based on inflated valuation of SpaceX”

“Ah, another post about Cursor.About half of the comments will be generic criticisms of Twitter, SpaceX, etc.”

“It's been 5 hours and instead of "any" questions, you have only been happy to answer the 1 question that hasn't put you in a tight spot.Honestly, that does not look too good for you or the offering - and this is coming from someone that just chose Cursor over Claude Code a week ago.”

“I want GitHub alternative, not Cursor with source control attached.”

“I was annoyed seeing unskippable "ad" within Cursor about it. Looked like a huge banner "give us control over all your code" with only one visible button to consent”

“Should we expect Origin to be a foundation for working with agent swarms?”

“Just the association with Musk will mean no EU company should use Cursor or its products.”

“Interesting that they still brand as Cursor instead of SpaceXAI”

“Never going to try it, sorry for anyone at cursor who was excited about what they were working on.”

“The only other privacy mode is to share data for Cursor to do training.All your codebases are belong to us.”

“Vibe coding is even easier now =)Jokes aside, this is a smart move by Cursor. As you can probably tell by the comments here, it's not for the experienced developers, but it will be a natural choice for vibe coders.”

“Hoping it develops quickly and becomes more fleshed out.The main limitation right now is that to share the code with anyone outside your Cursor organization, you need to sync it with GitHub.”

“Have you already linked your Graphite account with Cursor? If so, there might be a surprise!”

“Does this have stacked PRs? Cursor acquired Graphite a while back and stacked PRs were a killer feature.”

“That is a higher market cap than Mercedes Benz group, which is profitable and has $144B revenue.But the website uses 100% CPU. And this is a beta for paid plans, not a GitHub alternative.”

“If you google Cursor they dominate the whole first pageSurely they have a chance of doing it again with Origin”

“It ties back to git nicely (git pull origin/main), and sounds human.Cursor was also a great name given that it evolved into an advanced AI assisted auto complete. I think their team does a solid job with naming.”

“is there a way to browse a repository on origin without a cursor account? are all repos private?”