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Comment by jstummbillig | Hacker News Reader

Say more? It's the first time I see Composer 1 being talked about outside of the Cursor press stuff, with high praise no less.

What are we talking about? Autocomplete or GPT/Claude contender or...? What makes it so great?

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GPT contender. There has been talk on the cursor forums. I think largely people have e slept on coding models and stick with Anthropic thinking it’s the best. Composer fit that niche of extremely fast and smart enough. Sometimes you just want a model that has a near instant response. The new Gemini preview is overtaking my usage of Composer.

I used it extensively for a week and gave it an honest chance. It’s really good for quickly troubleshooting small bugs. It doesn’t come anywhere close to Opus 4.5 though.

Apples and oranges comparison. I don’t think it’s the same and good for you for waiting on Opus to respond. I don’t have the energy.

> Waiting for Opus

Sir Opus is the fast one of the bunch. Try GPT 5.2 high.

Sir I don’t use GPT 5.2. I value speed and accuracy. Not accuracy alone.

The problem is companies like OpenAI have the upper hand here as they show with the Codex models.

Which is what I was mentioning elsewhere. They build huge models with infinite money and distill them for certain tasks. Cursor doesn't have the funding, nor would it be wise, to try to replicate that.

Why do you think so? Cursor has raised what north of $3bn. That’s enough money to train or tune a model for coding. With their pricing changes I suspect they are trying to get at least to breakeven as quick as possible. They have massive incentives both on the quality of the model for tool chain use and from a cost perspective to try and run their own model generation.

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