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Cursor

“Built to make you extraordinarily productive, agents turn ideas into code. Accelerate development by handing off tasks to Cursor.”

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Our review

Cursor is an AI-first code editor with codebase-aware chat, multi-file edits, tab completion and coding agents that can run in the background or in the cloud.

Pros

  • Understands your whole codebase
  • Powerful agents and edits

Cons

  • Heavy usage needs a paid plan

Being used for

  • Writing and debugging code57 posts · X · Reddit · HN
  • Building websites and landing pages5 posts · X · X · X
  • Building apps and MVPs3 posts · X · Reddit · X

Based on 59 public posts on X, Reddit, and Hacker News that describe using it · checked Oct 23, 2026

Use cases · Hear from users

Real posts from people using Cursor on X, sorted by engagement (English first).

  • I built an AI powered writing app with Cursor Agent without writing a single line of code in a little over an hour. Features: - AI powered autocomplete - AI powered image search with autosuggestions based on what i'm writing - Ai powered research based on what i'm writing - Bl…

    976 likes · 113 reposts · 29 repliesView on X ↗
  • To get latest knowledge in Cursor you have multiple ways: 1. Add docs to cursor or use @ web cmd + Fast and easy - Index is sometimes arbitrary + not 100% up to date 2. Use Cursor Rules to guide and rule + Most accurate! - Takes effort and fills context window 3. Use Cursor…

    205 likes · 21 reposts · 3 repliesView on X ↗
  • I used to build with Cursor, but it's so expensive. What model do you suggest I use? Claude or Codex?

    35 likes · 1 reposts · 51 repliesView on X ↗
  • How much do you fight with Cursor .ai? I spend pretty much 8 hours fighting with Cursor, but I got it! I almost gave up and switched to Gemini 2.5 Pro, and finally got it with a lot of prompting.

    14 likes · 0 reposts · 15 repliesView on X ↗
  • I built something cool: Cursor IDE now has persistent memory, powered by @zep_ai's Graphiti graph framework! 🌐🧠 💡 Say goodbye to the Cursor agent asking "wut?", & have it recall your coding preferences, standards, & reqs across sessions & projects. @cursor_ai @amanrsanger http…

    18 likes · 2 reposts · 6 repliesView on X ↗
  • @AnthropicAI Claude is now the cheapest per token on the Pro plan. I have been using Cursor too, use both in the cursor IDE, along with Cursor... That seems the best fit.... and cost effective.

    26 likes · 1 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
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  • Day 1 of officially learning "AI coding". I built a little office game where you toss floppy disks into a trash can. Nothing big. My real goal was just to get more familiar with all of the buttons in cursor. I wanted something that used only HTML,CSS, and JavaScript (Phaser).…

    19 likes · 0 reposts · 5 repliesView on X ↗
  • Burned $160 in API costs this month with Cursor IDE Agent mode and Sonnet 3.7 MAX, Gemini 2.5 MAX and ended up stuck flapping code, scope creep. I switched to Grok 3 Beta and actually started making real progress. Grok is just better.

    5 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • So nice to have an excellent Claude model again. So far I've been using GPT 5.6 Sol in Cursor, but now switched to Opus 5.5.

    3 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • Posted a little about this earlier in the week… but I am really falling in love with Cursor Agent. I started using it because I ran out of Grok usage and I’ve been loving it since. For the sequel I’ve built 2 levels with Grok Build and 2 with Cursor. I can see where each one w…

    2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • After using the Cursor IDE for a long time, I tried Codex for the last month, and it's the best coding agent I've ever used.

    2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • I've been using Grok 4.7 and 4.6 in Cursor and the results are... honestly terrible.

    1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • M Dash @mdashdev

    Since @elonmusk & @X acquired cursor, it became the most useless coding agent in the world. It’s unusable, I am big cursor fan been using it since 2 years. Mostly because of the free monthly quota using composer 2.5 which was very fine. Now it’s switched to grok 4.7 which…

    4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗
  • I built and launched a poker analytics SaaS with Cursor AI in under a month and yesterday I helped the first user, who I met in a poker Facebook group, get onboarded I didn't write a single line of code - the entire app has been built from conversations with the Cursor Agent ht…

    3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗
  • How good of an alternative is Cursor CLI (`cursor-agent`) to Claude Code? I'm reluctant to use both, since I use Cursor IDE already, but damn… Claude Code really is *that* good! https://t.co/0qE6pg2AiJ

    0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • Yesterday I tried to build a prototype using the same Figma design and the exact same prompt I used to generate an iOS dashboard in Cursor. This time I tried doing it inside Figma Make. Completely different result. It generated random stuff, broke a lot of things, and I spent…

    0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • I Just Built My First MCP Server to Control a Smart Bulb Using Cursor IDE. This weekend, I built my first server using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to control a Havells smart bulb directly through natural language commands in Cursor IDE. Github :- https://t.co/l8SrzXeInl h…

    0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 repliesView on X ↗
  • Eduks @maxupsidehq

    I planned to hire developers. I used AI instead. Here's what it couldn't do. Every time I tried coding it myself, I got stuck or life got in the way. Then started using AI, first with Cursor and then with Claude Code. SwimTune is now on the App Store. Your idea in a niche you…

    1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗
  • John Lam @JohnLamhk

    Anyone using Cursor to help write classic Siemens STEP7 (SIMATIC Manager, S7-300) LAD? I’m in electrical engineering and started from zero on Cursor. I generate detailed network descriptions in Markdown with Cursor, then manually enter them in SIMATIC Manager. It feels amazing a…

    1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗
  • Fascinating market trend for AI: the shift towards free models. I used to work with Cursor AI, but now I’ve switched to Codestral by @MistralAI running locally. I used Claude 3.5 for quick productivity tasks, and now I rely on @deepseek_ai 32b on my phone working offline.

    0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 repliesView on X ↗