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Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

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Re: Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

#31
post #29

Hmm, now that we have the prompts, would it be possible to reimplement Cursor servers and have a fully local ( ahem pirated) version?

Or you could just use Cline / Roo Code which are better for agentic coding and open source anyway...

But extremely expensive in comparison

Re: Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

#32
post #23

Hmm, now that we have the prompts, would it be possible to reimplement Cursor servers and have a fully local ( ahem pirated) version?

presumably their apply model is run on their servers I wonder how hard it would be to build a local apply model/surely that would be faster on a macbook

It’s possible, but they allow you to specify your own API (that’s how they got the prompts in this article).

Re: Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

#33
post #27

Cursor is the only product that I have cancelled in 20+ years due to a lack of customer service response. Emailed them multiple times over weeks about billing questions -- not a single response. These weren't like VS code questions , either -- they needed Cursor staff intervention. No problem getting promo emails though! The quicker their 'value' can be spread to other services the better, imo. Maybe the next group w…

Similarly: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/1052

Re: Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

#35
post #33
post #27

Cursor is the only product that I have cancelled in 20+ years due to a lack of customer service response. Emailed them multiple times over weeks about billing questions -- not a single response. These weren't like VS code questions , either -- they needed Cursor staff intervention. No problem getting promo emails though! The quicker their 'value' can be spread to other services the better, imo. Maybe the next group w…

Similarly: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/1052

Super weird. It never did this to my defaults. Why would it do to some users and not others? Terrible behavior. Surprised Mac even allows a program to simply overwrite such settings.

Re: Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

#36
post #27

Cursor is the only product that I have cancelled in 20+ years due to a lack of customer service response. Emailed them multiple times over weeks about billing questions -- not a single response. These weren't like VS code questions , either -- they needed Cursor staff intervention. No problem getting promo emails though! The quicker their 'value' can be spread to other services the better, imo. Maybe the next group w…

Indeed.

Mail to is replied by “Sam from Cursor” which is “Cursor's AI Support Assistant” and after few back and forth it tells “I'm connecting you with a teammate who can better investigate”. Guess what? It’s been a month and no further communication whatsoever.

I don’t have high hopes for its customer services.

Re: Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

#37
post #23

Hmm, now that we have the prompts, would it be possible to reimplement Cursor servers and have a fully local ( ahem pirated) version?

presumably their apply model is run on their servers I wonder how hard it would be to build a local apply model/surely that would be faster on a macbook

Its hard to get a model that does it usefully on your laptop. Theres an open source 1.5B model from QuocDat, and Morph - https://morphllm.com which is a fast apply model as an API (that I run)

Re: Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client

#38
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similarly: https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/1052

Super weird. It never did this to my defaults. Why would it do to some users and not others? Terrible behavior. Surprised Mac even allows a program to simply overwrite such settings.

No clue, it very much did it for me, but given the lack of new comments since March they might have silently stopped doing that. That they never responded there nor even bothered to close the thread fits squarely with GP's experience with their non-existent customer service :)

Had no idea that this was possible on Mac either, never seen any other app do this, though commonplace on Windows.

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