CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests
Someone just got the AWS bill.
More like they just got their Anthropic bill.
Cloud compute is gonna be cheap compared to the API costs for LLMs they use/offer.
That's got to be it. Cloud compute is expensive when you're not being funded in Azure credits. One the dust settles from the AI bubble bursting, most of the AI we'll see will probably be specialized agents running small models locally.
Sounds like charge back territory
Hopefully (?) this is the start of a trend and people might begin to realize how all those products are not worth their price and AI is an overhyped mess made to hook users before exploiting them...
Are you a software engineer who has made use of these and similar tools?
If not, this is epic level armchairing.
The tools are definitely hyped, but they are also incredibly functional. They have many problems, but they also work and achieve their intended purpose.
I have a rough idea of their efficiency as I've used them, not in professional settings but I wager it would not be too different.
My point is more that it feels like the rugs are finally starting to get pulled. This tech is functionnal as you said, it works to a point and that point is enough for a sizeable amount of people. But I doubt that the price most people are paying now is enough to cover the cost of answering their queries. Now that some people, especially younger devs or people who never worked without those tools are dependant on it, they can go ahead and charge more.
But it's not too late, so I'm hoping it will make some people more aware of that kind of scheme and that they will stop feeding the AI hype in general.
The whole industry is projecting something like negative $200B for next years. They know it's not worth the price.
Ah they're learning from the "unlimited" mobile carriers.
"Unlimited" until you meet your limit, then throttled.
Imagine the price hikes when they need to get that return on hundreds of billions they've poured into these models, datacenters and electricity.
Well shit, I've been on vacation, and I signed up with Cursor a month ago. Not allowed at work, but for side projects at home in an effort to "see what all the fuss is about".
So far, the experience was rock solid, but I assume when I get home that I'll be unpleasantly surprised.
Has anyone here had rate limiting hit them?
I’ve primarily use claude-4-sonnet in cursor and was surprised to see a message telling me it would start costing extra above and beyond my subscription. This was prolly after 100 queries or so. However, switching to “auto” instead of a specific model continues to not cost anything and that still uses claude-4-sonnet when it thinks it needs to. Main difference I’ve noticed is it’s actually faster because it’ll sometimes hit cheaper/dumber APIs to address simple code changes.
It’s a nice toy that does improve my productivity quite a bit and the $20/month is the right price for me, but I have no loyalty and will drop them without delay if it becomes unusable. That hasn’t happened yet.
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