I’m posting this to warn others and demand accountability from Cursor. On July 15, my Pro plan renewed, giving me the $20 monthly quota that includes usage of the Claude 4 Opus model. I opened Cursor and submitted a single prompt. Without any further action from me, the agent system recursively tr…

You’re not wrong. This is a product issue. Even Claude Code has a popup every $5 you spend in a session it pauses to warn the user. Cursor has no such guardrails. When a car manufacturor builds a car with faulty brake lines, they cannot blame the customer for driving too fast that they weren’t abl…

You can have cursor run in ask every time mode. You can have a simple python script keep an eye on usage. As far as i can tell this is user error. He even picked the most expensive model, in the mode that is designed to be used without looking at it. If you want specific results you shouldn’t be usi…

You know you can set agent to wait for you to approve every subsequent action ? Letting it run of untethered on its own is dangerous, do that in auto mode if you have to. Free run agents are often reckless even in the best case scenario Review your cursor settings here: [{93502E90-B78D-40B8-812…

Is that what’s causing excessive “cache read”? [cacheread]

Just try claude code any you will ask cursor for refund the next day

What behaviour do you want? Do you want it to abort the opus requests when it hits $10? I’m annoyed by the changes they’ve made, but what they are doing is hard. There’s just not a lot of expertise in how to manage what the LLM does. Perhaps like MCP, they need a way to signal how much resources th…

Loving GitHub Copilot. It’s bug-free, affordable, and doesn’t play games with usage. No complaints.

Agreed. I’m currently using both Cursor and VSCode with GitHub Copilot in parallel ($10 for unlimited GPT-4.1 and 300 Sonnet requests). GitHub Copilot codes quite fast and doesn’t generate much unnecessary chatter. I still use Cursor when doing a lot of manual coding. Cursor Tabs are still excelle…

This is something I love with CC. The way it controls the context + forcing you to review everything step by step. I think just another mode for Cursor to build if they want to.

I think what’s happening is a little clearer, the issue is people are getting 10x greater cache read/write token usage/drain than before - people are getting millions of tokens used for a simple test prompts, one person used 2 billion tokens in a week getting charged $1,780 when he used to be able t…

Pro Plan Burned in 10 Minutes by Background Agent Calls — Completely Unacceptable

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pra9v August 1, 2026, 4:27am 52

better fix for this problem can be → Task-Based Token Usage Estimation & Model Recommendation ?

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Pro Plan Burned in 10 Minutes by Background Agent Calls — Completely Unacceptable

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