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Cursor tries setting less money on fire — AI vibe coders outraged (pivot-to-ai.com)
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[–] nightsky@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

From this link in the article:

Cursor uses a combination of our custom models, as well as models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. [...] Auto automatically routes to different frontier models based on capacity.

Uhm, since I don't use any of this crap... can someone explain what Cursor actually does? I mean... when it's using an "external model", I assume that means they just use OpenAI/Anthropic/etc as a backend service? (Which means even with the current price increase it is indirectly still heavily subsidized...) What service does Cursor even provide then? Do they just prepend user prompts with some unhinged garbage and then send it off to OpenAI etc? Why are people paying for it.. is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Why are people paying for it… is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?

Even the vscode socials are taking the piss:

($10 is the copilot subscription apparently)

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

It really irks me when people put the dollar sign after the number.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 8 points 12 hours ago

It's a stupid thing that

  • exists only in English as far as I know, every other language puts it after the number,
  • is not used consistently (since you still write 25¢ and not ¢25),
  • doesn't follow the way you read it (it's "five dollars" not "dollar five").

It's one of those places where yes, the spelling rules say otherwise, but the rule is fucking stupid so anarchy it is.

I'm more irked by "less", the noun there is dollars so it should be "fewer"...

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago

Tell that to French Canadians. This is the standard in Québec.

[–] Seminar2250@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why are people paying for it… is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?

from what i understand, having had a promptfondling former friend try to sell me on it, is that it is just LLM-autocomplete for code, so yeah the editor integration

my best attempt at emulating it:

def what_was_that_sorting_algorithm_called_again(array, length_because_i_dont_know_python_semantics_so_i_use_cursor):
    if ... # [here, i guess it would suggest something stupid like checking if the array is already sorted]

edit: that is, i don't think this can be done directly through the LLMs they plug into. but idk, i haven't touched any of these since 2023