Anysphere is the startup that produces Cursor, your sort-of dependable vibe coding buddy. You tell Cursor what you’d like and it spits out a complete function! This leads to some spectacular vibe c…
Cursor uses a combination of our custom models, as well as models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. […] Auto automatically routes to different frontier models based on capacity.
Uhm, since I don’t use any of this crap… can someone explain what Cursor actually does? I mean… when it’s using an “external model”, I assume that means they just use OpenAI/Anthropic/etc as a backend service? (Which means even with the current price increase it is indirectly still heavily subsidized…) What service does Cursor even provide then? Do they just prepend user prompts with some unhinged garbage and then send it off to OpenAI etc? Why are people paying for it… is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?
Why are people paying for it… is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?
from what i understand, having had a promptfondling former friend try to sell me on it, is that it is just LLM-autocomplete for code, so yeah the editor integration
my best attempt at emulating it:
defwhat_was_that_sorting_algorithm_called_again(array, length_because_i_dont_know_python_semantics_so_i_use_cursor):
if ... # [here, i guess it would suggest something stupid like checking if the array is already sorted]
edit: that is, i don’t think this can be done directly through the LLMs they plug into. but idk, i haven’t touched any of these since 2023
From this link in the article:
Uhm, since I don’t use any of this crap… can someone explain what Cursor actually does? I mean… when it’s using an “external model”, I assume that means they just use OpenAI/Anthropic/etc as a backend service? (Which means even with the current price increase it is indirectly still heavily subsidized…) What service does Cursor even provide then? Do they just prepend user prompts with some unhinged garbage and then send it off to OpenAI etc? Why are people paying for it… is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?
Even the vscode socials are taking the piss:
($10 is the copilot subscription apparently)
It really irks me when people put the dollar sign after the number.
It’s a stupid thing that
It’s one of those places where yes, the spelling rules say otherwise, but the rule is fucking stupid so anarchy it is.
I’m more irked by “less”, the noun there is dollars so it should be “fewer”…
Tell that to French Canadians. This is the standard in Québec.
from what i understand, having had a promptfondling former friend try to sell me on it, is that it is just LLM-autocomplete for code, so yeah the editor integration
my best attempt at emulating it:
def what_was_that_sorting_algorithm_called_again(array, length_because_i_dont_know_python_semantics_so_i_use_cursor): if ... # [here, i guess it would suggest something stupid like checking if the array is already sorted]edit: that is, i don’t think this can be done directly through the LLMs they plug into. but idk, i haven’t touched any of these since 2023