Over the past few weeks - right as I am in the middle of a huge project and having gone from $20/month to $200/month in the same month - Cursor has become slowly worse until it is now unusable. The cost of the models is getting more expensive and having just paid $200 for a month I am now in the position of being stuck on “Auto” - or enabling “on demand” usage and paying more. The continued presence of the “Terminal bug” in the recent versions (from 2.1.46 all the way through to the latest version) makes the product unusable for me with any version 2.1.46 plus. The constant messing around with the UI, the slowdown of the entire application and the other numerous issues mean I am now cancelling.
I am switching to Kilo Code. On first glance it appears quite similar, works in my existing vscode, has transparent pricing, has WAY more models (400+), allows you to supply your own API key, is fully open source and the list goes on and on and on.
For me - with the current Cursor situtation.. this was a bit of a no brainer. Will be trying it out for a few days and, more than likely, will end up cancelling cursor and certainly will not be paying them $200 a month any longer.
What was once so promising has rapidly become an unholy mess and really, I feel it is more to do with bad management and rapid growth they are unprepared for - combined with the insane pace of Cursor development - a lot of things are breaking - broken things are not being fixed - and I cannot work like this.
Thanks for starting me on this journey - but our time together is coming to an end.