It is not what you think

Why I cancelled my Cursor subscription

I was very happy with ChatGPT, but I noticed that for longer projects its lack of memory was exasperating. I was recommended Cursor and I loved it — it was the missing link. It connects your project folders to the AI, so the AI knows what we are talking about.

But one day it began to act stupid again; it did not remember what we had talked about the day before. That is when I found out that I had actually been using Claude under the hood, and that my plan had been changed to some cheaper AI. Then I found out that Cursor was actually a reseller.

Cursor offers the platform where it resells other AIs — and immediately afterwards I found out that no, not even that: it is actually a repackager, because they don't even own the platform. It is just a paint job.

I then got VS Code with Claude, and I am enjoying the same results as with the original Cursor.

So all the news surrounding Cursor — SpaceX buying it for $60 billion — felt very pertinent to what Cursor is and represents. For me it was a reminder to unsubscribe from a product I was no longer really using.

One curious thing I will say about VS Code: you don't need to log in to GitHub to use it. That is Copilot trying to sneak in — in the traditional Microsoft style of showing up to parties uninvited.

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