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NoCursor · 16 Jun 2026

It would frequently try to solve relatively difficult tasks using Composer, when it should have been routing to a true frontier model

renjimen on Hacker News

In the thread “SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B”, replying to this comment

Helped: Switching to expensive frontier models for difficult tasks.

Got in the way: Auto mode routing difficult tasks to weak models without transparency.

For the kind of ML work I do Cursor's "Auto" was too unreliable. It would frequently try to solve relatively difficult tasks using Composer, when it should have been routing to a true frontier model. Annoyingly, doesn't tell you what model it's decided your task deserves, so I often wasted time working through a problem with it, only to realise I was on a dumb model. …