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Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by chrisweekly »

tosh wrote: post #22

I can only recommend to regularly measure how many tokens a harness+model combination uses for a certain task There are huge token efficiency/bloat differences between agents while working on the same tasks, using the same model, in the same environment Yesterday I ran 10 agentic tasks using GPT 5.6 Sol in an ubuntu 26.04 vm a couple of times with different harnesses and got vastly different token usage. +-----------…

Thanks for sharing. Naming tangent: FWIW I have recent interest in "smolvm" microvms from smolmachines.com, which are unrelated.

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by bakies »

LeBit wrote: post #92
bakies wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like on GitHub. That's how I do it too.

I’m surprised. That’s nowhere what you would get out of a tool like GitLens or Sublime Merge. Diffing through a web interface offered by GitHub or Bitbucket is such a narrow window into changes.

I was running `git diff` before so I'm not sure what I'm missing I guess.

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by xienze »

tosh wrote: post #22

I can only recommend to regularly measure how many tokens a harness+model combination uses for a certain task There are huge token efficiency/bloat differences between agents while working on the same tasks, using the same model, in the same environment Yesterday I ran 10 agentic tasks using GPT 5.6 Sol in an ubuntu 26.04 vm a couple of times with different harnesses and got vastly different token usage. +-----------…

> There are huge token efficiency/bloat differences between agents while working on the same tasks, using the same model, in the same environment

Be careful here. Remember these are non-deterministic models at the end of the day, and even with everything being "the same" you can have two runs where the same model, same harness, same tools can arrive at the same conclusion through a wildly different sequence of events.

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by est31 »

slashdave wrote: post #8

Cursor achieved fast adoption by making it simple to move from Visual Studio code. Double-edged sword. It is also simple to move back to VS code and agent extensions.

Cursor has an import assistant from vs code settings. Ahere is no assistant for the inverse. Not even for moving between computers (at least a couple of months ago when I had the need haha).

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by ignore_prev »

tosh wrote: post #22

I can only recommend to regularly measure how many tokens a harness+model combination uses for a certain task There are huge token efficiency/bloat differences between agents while working on the same tasks, using the same model, in the same environment Yesterday I ran 10 agentic tasks using GPT 5.6 Sol in an ubuntu 26.04 vm a couple of times with different harnesses and got vastly different token usage. +-----------…

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Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

#108

Post by vorticalbox »

kalaksi wrote: post #7
aroman wrote: post #5

I was an early and passionate adopter and paying customer of Cursor (since 2023!), but it’s probably been 6 months since I opened it. These days I “write” code with claude code and codex, and read/review it on GitHub. If I need to read it locally, I use a plain text editor. Can someone help me understand what value cursor offers in 2026?

Recently they also seem to have made big changes that makes Cursor worse for editing code by hand. I'm not sure what they are trying to do, but it doesn't feel like vscode fork anymore. I'm starting to consider alternatives. To answer your question though, to me your workflow seems cumbersome. Cursor is more integrated and more frictionless.

Cursor has two “modes” agent and ide.

In agent mode it’s horrible for editing files etc but better if you are juggling multiple chats

Re: Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

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Post by ronsor »

joinjune wrote: post #26
aroman wrote: post #5

I was an early and passionate adopter and paying customer of Cursor (since 2023!), but it’s probably been 6 months since I opened it. These days I “write” code with claude code and codex, and read/review it on GitHub. If I need to read it locally, I use a plain text editor. Can someone help me understand what value cursor offers in 2026?

It removes money from your pocket into theirs faster than Claude will take money out of your pocket and into theirs. I was a Windsurf then Cursor user and even provided product feedback to the Cursor team on various aspects of their product but the costs for using it killed the value.

> faster than Claude will take money out of your pocket and into theirs

Damn, and I thought Anthropic was fast.

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