I’ve been running Cursor Auto and I’ve got a rule to make the model clearly state its name at the start of each answer. So right now, are you guys actually giving us GPT-4.1 in Auto? Used to be Sonnet or at least Haiku (or gpt5), but now it’s just this junk. Honestly, that says a lot about how much Auto mode performance has dropped lately.
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agreed++
Hey, such rules aren’t accurate, models often hallucinate those. For example DeepSeek would say it’s actually OpenAI etc.
Auto is just a router that gives you one of premium models depending on what could be best for current task etc.
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GPT 4.1 is one of the best models if you know how to write prompts and provide context well. I’ve been using it as my daily driver since it came out.
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True, GPT-4.1 is pretty great, and it’s built to handle context really well.
Given that the task here is generating a commit message, it could actually do very well.
When I ask:
I have been using Auto for a day or so (getting close to my monthly usage limit), and its performing pretty well so far.
Nah, that’s not true. I’ve got the same rule and it works correctly like 90% of the time. The only exceptions I’ve seen are Sonnet 4.5 occasionally claiming it’s 3.5, or Haiku sometimes saying it’s Sonnet. But OpenAI models always report their names right, so yeah—it’s definitely GPT-4.1.
Also, Auto doesn’t actually pick a model based on the task, it just gives you one generic model from the pool for everything. Sure, GPT-4.1 can handle stuff like commit message generation no problem, but for a lot of other use cases it’s just trash. The model’s the same no matter what you’re doing, and that’s really the point of the original post.