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Re: Cursor 1.0

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I’m not a fan of the 20 tool limit unless you use the Max option which costs you 1 credit for each and every tool call + message. Seems like an artificial limit and it always rips me out

You can just click continue and keep burning tokens. It's not such a big deal.

Doesn’t it require you to create a new chat?

Re: Cursor 1.0

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That works in systems that exhibit economy of scale. The problem with generative ai workloads: The costs rise linerly with the number of requests, because you need to compute every query.

GPU type and utilization mean that the costs likely rise only logarithmically or sub-linear. If you commit to buying enough inference over long enough, someone can buy a rack of the newest custom inference chips and run them at 100% for you, which may be a lot cheaper per request than doing them on a cpu somewhere.

I disagree tbh. I mean, I accept that new silicon will have better power usage and probably be more efficient in terms of flops/Joule, but there would need to be a major technical breakthrought to get a logarithmic relationship between N requests and inference cost. N requests at P flops, still means I need C x P flops for C x N requests. A not-so-steep linear relationship is still linear.
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