Comment by peteforde | Hacker News Reader

Comment by peteforde | Hacker News Reader

A few months ago folks were understandably annoyed when Microsoft dropped their heavily subsidized per-request pricing model because it was figuratively burning cash.

Well, I'm here to tell you that whatever is going on behind the scenes at Cursor with this Space-X acquisition in the works, the Auto setting is clearly routing all prompts through "Cursor Grok 4.6 High" right now.

This is a degree of subsidy that makes the Microsoft thing look quaint.

I reduced my $200/month subscription to the $20/month level and have proceeded to do what I would have paid about $1500 to do with Opus 4.7 or thereabouts, which is how Grok 4.6 High feels like it compares. I don't have anything remotely like hard evidence to back this estimate up beyond what I'm watching it do and I still somehow have ~10% of my monthly Auto capacity left on my account. It's completely nuts.

Can't say much more because I have more backlog to run before someone comes to their senses.

Giving Elon cash seems still wrong to me.

Yea. I can't stress this enough -- my life would need to be unquestionably on the line for me to give elon anything other than grief.

Worse than giving to Sama? (I mean that honestly.)

I think most would say yes? The sheer amount of misery Elon has caused with the DOGE antics would alone qualify, IMO.

I'm not part of the Musk fan club either, you can count on that.

However, I've been using Cursor since it came out. I have a massive amount of institutional knowledge locked into their platform, and vastly prefer it to the other options available even if the switching costs were zero.

Going through what would amount to significant effort/time/cost to switch to a different coding tool as a sort of performative political rebuke is just not how I would recommend anyone protest DOGE.

How well does Cursor work with heavily agentic workflows?

I usually keep 4+ agents churning, many of them on tasks that take hours or day. I only played with Cursor a bit, but it seemed to want input from me every 10 minutes or so.

I don't know because I honestly don't know or really understand how/why anyone needs what you're describing.

I am not saying that you're wrong, just very aware that we appear to use LLMs in radically different ways.

Only the most substantial requests run for ten minutes or more, and I would spend an hour or more writing the prompt for that action.

I am always the bottleneck for how quickly Cursor can do what I want, with the level of outcome that I get.

I would genuinely love to be a fly on the wall while you do what you do, because it just doesn't currently make sense to me.

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