The AI space moves fast, we can all agree. And many of us pay Cursor in order to receive a quality product ($20 ~ 4 coffees). And some of the updates and rollouts have been a little sloppy.
But it is insane the number of messages like:
Cursor are destroying their business model
How dare they wait longer than 24 hours to release X model
I have caught them condensing long conversations / using distilled models / switching model routing
The company owes us an explanation for X bug or downtime
When is X feature coming - I’m not even going to start my new product/business until this is implemented
This forum should be a useful space to discuss ideas, help each other debug, and suggest new features. Instead those needles are being lost in a haystack of complaints. Can we add a “Complaint” category, so that these do not clog up more interesting discussion? Or better yet, can people just chill? Cursor is figuring this out as it goes along, it’s not charging you hundreds of dollars, it’s not trying to harm your development experience, and you can wait a week for X model to arrive. A week will not make the difference between you building the next unicorn (especially if you’re not able to build it with the current models).
I agree, obviously there’s a bias towards complaints, people don’t generally create an account to say “everythings fine”. But there’s an unrealistically high level of expectation among users about how well it’s going to work.
This is basically a research project. Of course it’s going to constantly change, break and do unexpected things. Most of that 20 bucks is going towards a third party (Claude, chatgpt) anyway.
Enjoy the ride, drop your sense of entitlement (i.e. furious posts about how you will be cancellling your account in the next 10 minutes unless all bugs are fixed) and appreciate that you get to play around with the cutting edge of tech!
I think what would help a lot of people, id do it if i knew how better…
I have found most of my problems or complaints are because of my own lack of knowledge due to ignorance. One day when i lost so much of what i had built up due to letting composer keep editing and being mad that it wasnt reading my mind and long story short it just screwed my whole project up.
i took a break from anything serious and just went through and tried all the extensions, different settings…etc etc. In doing so i found quite a bit of my “needs/wants” had all been created i just didnt look or was to lazy to dive deeper. so my advice is before you complain is to try all kinds of the things that you normally probably wouldnt
but its taken me to the point of wanting to frisbee my laptop haha