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I’d like to start with how much I love Cursor because I wouldn’t have gotten into software development if it weren’t for it. I come from a background in front-end development, but I’ve never made a desktop application before. Cursor changed that and I’ve already made 2 apps that help me in my video & animation work.

I’m excited by and genuinely admire and appreciate all the great work the Cursor devs have been doing, but lately (in the past month or so) I’ve been getting the sense that the Sales & Marketing team has replaced the Product Designer(s).

Cursor used to be a simple service unlike its competitors — I could just pay a flat fee and get exactly what the product (Cursor IDE) claims to do for you.

Then COT doubled the price. Then “Claude MAX” was introduced as an additional layer of cost outside of the subscription. Maybe I’m guilty of cynicism, but the introduction of MAX makes it all look like I’m being charged for an updated system prompt. As if the non-MAX Claude’s optimization for Cursor’s use-case has been neglected or even abandoned. It really has not felt like Cursor has its customers’ backs anymore. It feels like Cursor made something too cheap and is now scrambling to compensate their investors.

Now it seems like the subscription I’m paying is just so I can have access to a convoluted payment scheme with decreasing cost predictability and increasingly more complicated with every evolution of the IDE.

I doubt that this post will have any impact besides starting or continuing a conversation.
But with the end of the month coming up, I’m heavily debating whether I should keep my subscription or not, since I might as well just pay OpenRouter and use Roo/Cline.

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Nah not that bad. I tried 3.7 but now using 3.5 and its brilliant and not higher priced.

With adjusted prompts 3.7 and with more adjustments on 3.7 Thinking you can get good results. Sure thinking or max costs extra. But thats quite advanced usage.

I simplified my rules and adjusted prompts and 3.5 is really excellent. Doing long tasks quite well and when chat thread goes long you may need to start new chat to avoid confusing AI with context containing too many things.

Not saying that there were no issues in the last month :slight_smile: but also that the value per 20 USD or per usage based pricing request on 3.5 is still fully there. Even a bit better now than before as the IDE is better and more stable on 0.48 which is rolling out this week to all.

Tried various competition products, personally not satisfied but have not used them all as well. Too much work to adjust to different IDEs and try their features.

Not part of Cursor team and not getting any goodies for replying.

Hope you got some benefit from my reply.

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