Guys, what - in your opinion - does "heavy user" mean? I thought I am heavy user (I am using AI to code every day 8hr a day + side projects) but 20 USD/month Cursor plan is always enough. What should I be doing to extend my license to higher level?
I spend most of my time designing and tweaking tests suites, and improving test performance. These commits are almost entirely Codex: https://github.com/tsoniclang/tsonic/commits/main/ - but it's possible only because there's a very large test suite attached to it.
All of that is very token intensive. If OpenAI gave me 3x my limits, I'd find ways to eat it up in a week.
What do these tokens give me? Well, I think in a week or two, I hope to port the TypeScript-Go compiler back into TypeScript, but compiled to native code. It's probably not particularly useful for most ppl, but it's a hobby project that I've spent the last 7 months on.
8hrs a day doesn’t really mean anything without a lot additional qualifiers.
fwiw lately I’ve been straddling 2 or 3 claude codes and one Claude cowork, primarily on 4.7 with high effort - the company’s paying for it, so I’m doing my best to burn as many tokens as I have the mental capacity to manage. At that rate, the 100 account is completely necessary, I was blowing through my 4-hour limits consistently before requisitioning an upgrade.
About token consumption and models: that's the thing. I hear this question often, but my answer is always the same. As I am Cursor user, I run it always in Auto mode (so Cursor decides which model to use, I don't even know which is in use).
Sometimes I switch from Auto to defined model but I found it quickly triggers "you are out of tokens" notices so nope: I stick to Auto :) 20 usd / month and that's it
there's your answer. You're likely a heavy user. It's just that in this particular case Auto is shuffling models & reasoning efforts just right so you stay afloat.
There are a lot caveats when people say they're running out credits in hours: lots of people runnings clawS (multiple) 24/7; lots of people using Agent Teams or similar; lots of people just max reasoning for everything; etc.
If you get your work done in the 20 plan, thank the credit Gods and sleep easy. Price hikes are probably coming, or just reasons to draw more credits out from you in one form or another (e.g. new OAI device draws from you 20 sub to use)
at most I have a time to go make a tea for myself when I am waiting for agent to end the job.