Not trying to be dramatic, just want to see if anyone else is noticing this, what feels like exploitation.
Using Cursor kind of feels like gambling. It starts off great. First few prompts, everything’s flowing, you’re making fast progress. You think this is it, it’s gonna build the whole thing. Then you get to that 80 to 90 percent mark and it starts going in circles.
You fix one thing, it breaks another. You ask it to clean something up and it rewrites the whole logic or starts adding weird features you didn’t ask for. One step forward, two steps back.
Every message is a request (give or take). You get 500 for 20 USD and after that it’s pay per request. This month, for the first time since I started using Cursor mid last year, I’ve gone over 145 USD in usage. I’ve never gone over 30 USD a month before. I’m using it in the same sorts of calls, on the same kind of projects. Nothing’s changed in my usage. But all of a sudden it’s chewing through requests like crazy.
It feels like it’s getting better at making you feel like you’re close but actually performing worse overall. Like it knows how to keep you in the loop, constantly prompting, constantly fixing, constantly spending. One more message. One more fix. One more spin.
And this isn’t just on big projects. I’ve seen this with full stack apps, SaaS tools, monorepos, and now even with something as dead simple as a Google Maps scraper. What should’ve taken me 1 or 2 hours max has turned into a full day of prompt loops and it’s still not finished.
Not saying this is some intentional dark pattern but that’s what it feels like. Like it’s built to keep you thinking you’re almost done but not quite. Just enough to keep paying.
Anyone else seeing this?.
