I gotta say this change where AUTO select for model is not thinking of your customers. This is costing us on a daily basis when we do not intend to use certain models and we all have to try to remember every time we launch Cursor to change it. Please either make this a preference so we can have sticky setting to our favorite model or at least launch with the last selected model or both.
Based on the recent changes to charge for tool usage this combined with the auto feels like a money grab.
The auto isn’t defaulting to the top models. If it were, it would be reflected in the billing as gemini-2.5-pro-03-25 calls, not “fast api calls”. Auto is using something mysterious.
I loathe the fact that it defaults to Auto. It ruins my day. I get deep into a thread doing a really complex task and the model is producing garbage, and then I realize that I had been working with Auto and need to switch to gemini. The problem is that by that point I’ve contaminated my thread and the rest of the thread is literally garbage. But I’m too deep, so I can’t just go back to some arbitrary checkpoint.
Cursor absolutely needs to remove the daily reset to “Auto”. I’m losing my mind.