“I'm wondering if I'd get more bang for my buck and a better vibe-coding experience overall, if I switched to Cursor Pro to work on those projects or any future projects.”
“A friend recently pushed me to try out their coding platform, Devin, after I decided to move away from Cursor. I had the same reaction: "What, the con artists from like 2024?" But after some cajoling, I gave it a shot and was pleasantly surprised. I guess they learned their lessons, grew up, and are doing good work now, maybe?”
“i was on cursor pro+, burned through my usage in 2 days on grok bot, upgraded to ultra, same thing. im very fucking confused as to what 20x usage over pro looks like.. clearly it isnt giving me my moneys worth”
“Cursor is fast, and the best way to code rn, but Grok sucks and composer is good but not as good as none of the antrophic, open ai or even google models”
“Also "plan" in Cursor often takes 20% of the time of how long "plan" with Claude Code does. This is also a reason why I like to combine them during development. But I guess this is a difference in the way the harnass works?”
“Je n’ai pas essayé d’autre IDE, mais Cursor correspond à mon métier pour le moment. Je travaille sur du Symfony et du React Native, c’est amplement suffisant quand on ne réinvente pas la roue.”
“I switched to vs code + Claude plugin very recently. It is mostly alright but I’d be lying to say there are no feature I miss in cursor ide. The integration is very neat for sure.”
“i love the dudes that blame politics in here, if i was extreme anti elon i wouldnt be using cursor at all, i've tried many times and grok for anything more than a hand holding task is just a risk”
“I haven't had issues with the models but Cursor as a product has suffered. Constant issues, being charged for usage on broken pipelines, slow customer service, ect. Not to mention the fact that it is way to eager to just jump in and make tons of code changes without discussing enough even in plan mode.”
“SuperGrok Heavy does include Cursor access at the Ultra tier, so if Grok is your priority that bundle gets you more GrokBot usage than buying Cursor Pro separately.”
“I basically use it to replace what I was paying someone in Pakistan $190/mo to do but Grok Bot does probably twice the volume of actions, so roughly $400 of value for me on a $120/mo cursor teams plan.”
“One disappointing thing: when I tell it to commit, it commits all staged changes. It's different from Cursor and not very smart. Cursor is smart for this.”
“Its cursor using playwright and a virtual machine. Think an AI driven operating system that can follow commands like you stand over its shoulder telling it what to do in your computer while cursor runs in the background.”
“I'm using Cursor a lot these days and all I can say is usage and model output quality is extremely unpredictable and unreliable. Its a terribly frustrating experience. Sometimes it works really really well , like you're talking to a very experienced human software developer.”
“I have been on my workflow as usual and all of the sudden, without changing anything in my input and output, it went from 1% usage to 20% jump. I kept tracking and found no reason as to why it leap that high out of the blue.”
“Cursor’s workflow is hard to beat, though, so if the main issue is burning through Composer/Grok too quickly, changing the model/provider may make more sense than changing the whole IDE.”
“Ultra plan usage which used to last about 3 weeks gone within 3 days. I emailed them and they basically said everything was normal and there’s nothing they could do about it.”
“I don't know if you've ever used Composer 2.5--It's very frustrating without constant hand-holding. This is because it's an older model that lacks workflows and organization.”
“For people who’ve used Composer 2.5 on large existing codebases: would you trust it for the implementation part of something like this? Or would you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?”
“Switched most of my work over to Pi recently but the annoying part was all my chats lived in other agents. Months of Cursor and Claude Code sessions and I didnt just want to summarize them.”
“But to get more out of the $20 subscription, I installed the Cursor CLI on the bot’s computer, so now some tasks run through Cursor while others run through Grok Bot.”
“Cursor in auto mode made me feel like I have unlimited tokens on the lowest tier (pro subscription). I hardly managed to get 11% of my subscription in a month.”
“each agent step re-reads basically the whole chat (plus whatever files it already pulled), so a long-lived thread on a 1.5yr project can make "10 normal prompts" look like a huge usage cliff even when the asks feel small. tool-heavy turns stack that up fast, and if Agent spins Task/subagents you can get charged for models you didnt think you picked.”