Is it still worth to subscribe Pro plan for annual?

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Budy, you are absolutely right. But your Community Ambassador badge makes the conversation become a XY problem. When you stand for a normal cursor user, we complain about the official cursor maintainer, and then when you stand for the official, we complain about the cursor loudly. :laughing:

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The longest it takes for a prompt to complete for me is < 2 minutes.

I am developing a commercial application using Next JS and some standalone node js and also Python utilities.

I work in small steps, with planning…

  1. Review my requirements - often outside Cursor. Typically I use a ChatGPT project, but I have started using Ask mode more frequently for reviews / requirements.

  2. Once the review / requirement is completed, I work through it in Cursor, one feature at a time.

  3. Test

  4. Fix issues

  5. Repeat

I often get ChatGPT to write the prompts for Cursor, which I find works very well - ChatGPT can do it more succinctly an unambiguously than I can, and it also has the benefit that ChatGPT ‘knows’ my project almost as well as Cursor.

I’m on the Pro plan and almost exclusively use Auto mode, only using a specific model (usually Claude-4-Sonnet) when Cursor is completely stuck and cannot progress.

During about 20 hours of coding per week, I’ll have a couple of requirements that Cursor can’t implement - it will get confused and will either fail to implement or it will break a few things. If this happens, I review what went wrong, revert (using Cursor’s ‘Restore to Checkpoint’ feature or git), then rewrite the prompt and try again.

I keep my chats as short as possible and have (what I think) are good Cursor Rules.

I’ve been using Cursor for exactly a year and, other than going through a couple of periods (of a few days each) of utter frustration (because something changed in Cursor), I have found Cursor to be amazing in terms of productivity. I estimate that I can do approx. 4 hours of manual coding in 1 hour using Cursor.

I have just changed from monthly Pro to annual Pro so that I can continue to use Auto mode without limits for another 12 months (and saved a few $ per month at the same time).

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