Failing to use Anthropic key to workaround slow purgatory

I accidentally set myself to a thinking model early in my Pro month, and blasted through my fast requests over the course of a few days.

Since then, I’ve been trying to enjoy a “slow dev” experience, letting the agent work at a slower pace, while I really try to savor the code.

This morning I discovered that the “slow” pause seems to have been extended to an unbearably long lime!

So I bit the bullet and plopped in an Anthropic key, only to discover… the delay is still there.

OK, well, let’s try “gpt-4o-mini” and “cursor-small”, for which “You have no monthly quota.” But the delay is still there!

Is there something I’m missing? I’m no longer getting sufficient dopamine from my Cursor experience!