LLM can give you thousands of lines of perfectly working code for less than 1 dollar. How is that trivial or expensive?
Also, when I use Cursor I have to watch it like a hawk or it deletes random bits of code that are needed or adds in extra code to repair imaginary issues. A good example was that I used it to write a function that inverted the axis on some data that I wanted to present differently, and then added that call into one of the functions generating the data I needed.
Of course, somewhere in the pipeline it added the call into every data generating function. Cue a very confused 20 minutes a week later when I was re-running some experiments.
and the 1 dollar cost for your case is heavily subsidized, that price won't hold up long assuming the computing power stays the same.
For $1 I'm talking about Claude Opus 4. I doubt it's subsidized - it's already much more expensive than the open models.