I just ended my Cursor subscription today, and upgraded from Claude's Pro to Max plan to reduce my Claude Code costs. They now include a healthy Claude Code allowance in the Max plans.

If one has already set up Claude Code with metered API use, one toggles between plans using the /login command. Once to start using Max, then whenever one hits a five hour rate limit and wants to keep working.

I've tried many platforms. I kept Cursor long after Windsurf, but Claude Code is a clear winner, as most people report who don't bristle at the cost.

When Cursor or Windsurf forks VS Code, they have a reason. Their chat panes always felt like periscopes; one has better control over Claude Code in a terminal, and this frees up one's choice of editor. I now use Sublime Text, fast and lean.

WARNING for Cursor users: Cursor is currently stuck using an outdated snapshot of the VSCode Marketplace, meaning several extensions within Cursor remain affected by high-severity CVEs that have already been patched upstream in VSCode. As a result, Cursor users unknowingly remain vulnerable to known security issues. This issue has been acknowledged but remains unresolved: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/1602#issuecomment...

Given Cursor's rising popularity, users should be aware of this gap in security updates. Until the Cursor team resolves the marketplace sync issue, caution is advised when using certain extensions.

I've flagged it here, apologies for the repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43609572

I don't understand... it's a vscode fork where they're earning $20/mo for customers that are regularly costing much more. They have no moat.

I've used all 500 of my fast requests this month with cursor, I've 100% cost them more money than they've made from me every month I've had it.

Whats the path to profitability with this? they're expecting models to cost almost nothing and users not to just jump to the next coding agent?

Cursor is not about vibe coding. Vibe coding means you don't care about the AI's code output as long as it works. Cursor is all about efficiently reviewing the AI-proposed changes and hitting Tab only when you approve them. Much of the editing process is hitting Esc because the proposed change is not good.

Any IDE based editor feels like a stopgap to me. We may not be there yet, but I feel that in the future a "vibe coder" isn't even going to look at much code at all. Much of what developers who are relying on Cursor, Windmill, Replit, etc etc are doing is performative as it relates to code. There is just a lot of copy/pasting of console errors and asking for things one way or another.

Casual or "vibe" coding is all about the output. Doesn't work? Roll back. Works well? Keep going. Feeling gutsy? Single shot.

Cursor may be $9B but Aider is priceless

This is similar to the sort of hype which happened with Clubhouse app ($4B valuation, then the users stopped signing up.), Hopin ($9BN until the pandemic ended) and finally Inflection AI ($4B and almost no-one uses it after the initial AI hype).

One of biggest risks is Microsoft who can further lower prices with Copilot (and they can afford to do that for years) for longer and rapidly copy Cursor just like they destroyed Slack with Teams.

There really is no lock-in case for Cursor (unless they acquire something else) as users can easily cancel and switch back to VS Code and Cursor can lose that ARR very quickly and the cost is the entire company.

For Microsoft? Costs them nothing.

This $9B valuation is peak euphoria and this is the best time for Cursor to sell as they are getting very greedy after rejecting a buyout from OpenAI (twice).