Actually this is useless if you use any kind of MCP tooling like Playwright, it gets bogged down in its own context limitations and then just loops through summarising and ultimately becomes the victim of replicative fading making it useless after a couple of rounds in the converation
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Are we sure it is safe to use though?
my concern is might be something like deepseek
Yep, China will invade US with your sloppy vibe code.
Cheetah is too expensive to use, even considering its speed. It can only be used for quick searches, but Grok Code Fast 1 performs this task at a similar speed and is significantly more affordable.
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Its incredible fast and good at the same time.
It nails complex tasks pretty good.
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Personally, I won’t use a model that I don’t know where it came from.
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In your practice, what tasks does this model serve best?
Probably my favorite model.
The fast feedback loop enables quick iteration.
And it’s “good enough” for being that fast.
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I haven’t found anything that doesn’t work - YET!
It’s fast, it makes almost no mistakes - it even handles git commit / amend / rebase stuff pretty well automatically where other models fail badly sometimes.
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ive used cursor extensively for 8 months and recently switched to cheetah, at the moment i am using it to configure staging & multi-region production environments with docker swarm and redis, really complex DevOps stuff. I was going to use Alchemy, but it coded a bespoke IaC system for me. It is the only model I tried that is proficient at these tasks.
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It’s great that you managed to tame this model. In my scenarios, it behaves a little unpredictably. Yesterday, for example, the model replaced the global path to the backend on the frontend. It also added elements where I explicitly told it not to add them. It also doesn’t study how the code is structured, but writes it in its own style.
now you mention it, I had similar issues re paths but for staging/production, so I wouldn’t go as far to say I had the cheetah tamed, but all the models go a bit wild! 
I should add that I’m using it in max mode.
If this is a cursor model, congrats! It’s become by far the model I use the most. If it’s not a cursor model, congrats either way for having it around!
I’ll write something up for who cares to read it, with full workflows I use. I’ll share things that don’t work vs those that do for reference. I’m slowly becoming a zoo keeper so I can tame the cheetah
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I have yet to try it, being pedantic is stopping me from just giving these things a shot.
It turns out I was right. Cheetah is from Cursor. Officially named “Composer 1”.
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Thank you all for your feedback on Cheetah and lets continue the thread for our new improved version: Composer 1
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