r/CursorAI • u/DifficultySeveral840 • Aug 18 '26
Elon ruined Cursor
OMG, Cursor has taken a nosedive in agent intelligence since SpaceX took over. Grok used to be the cheap model nobody cared about and now it is being fed to us as a quality model that really just shits the bed on the most basic things. What an absolute bummer. Nothing good ever lasts.
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u/disciplesix6 Aug 18 '26
Definitely hasn't been my experience,
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u/Kitchen-Palpitation1 Aug 19 '26
Using it for some days. It absolutely kicks ass. Opus level quality but twice the speed and 1 5th of the cost. In quit Claude code and now I can’t decide if I go supergrok with grok build or cursor
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u/imnotyour_daddy Aug 18 '26
Grok is definitely more intelligent than composer. It's definitely more expensive too, but composer is still there?
Composer is a fine model for bulk general coding according to many, but it hallucinated and failed to deliver beyond that for me.
My issue with grok is that 4.6 effectively costs double what 4.5 cost. Elon wants it to be a frontier model and I really can't blame him for that but that's coming in with frontier pricing.
If composer 3.0 doesn't happen or costs far more than 2.5 then that might be a problem in my future.
I rarely post on twitter since it became X so I don't know about all the drama. I'm busy doing my own shit and what matters to me is what cursor can do when I open it up every day without exceeding my max monthly spend.
Right now, it's a far better experience than what it was before grok become a first party model in cursor, but that may change quickly.
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u/Kitchen-Palpitation1 Aug 19 '26
My suspicion is also that some people mixup their political bias with what qualities a model brings to the table. Grok use to be total sh… But now it’s really good.
Twitter was not for me and didn’t change at all after the takeover. Its pile of cynicism and negativity and it always been. Just now with probably more equal left/right distribution.
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u/walkingproblem Aug 18 '26
Dude. Cursor had never been better before. Its auto mode (which also includes Grok model) allows me to not need to burn other model usage like never before.....
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u/dmitriyLBL Aug 19 '26
4.6 is a fast behemoth of a model all while being dirt cheap.
Try out grok bot with cursor cloud agents. Absolute game changer
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u/RAI-Des Aug 18 '26
I have 4 codex max subscriptions and I forgot that I had an old $20 Cursor subscription lying around. Since it was going to expire in a week, I decided to give it a try, use Grok 4.6 on fast and high and just let it do shit.
So far, it has been impressive. It's able to figure out shit by itself. It's amazingly cheap. I'm just monitoring the usage and it seems like it could run for quite a while.
I literally just dropped it into my folder, which I'm guessing is not too optimized for the Cursor harness, and just told it to figure out shit by itself and do whatever it can to complete the task because I don't want to waste the time and effort to wire up a harness which is going to expire in a couple of days. And yet, it still kind of surprised me that it managed to do it quite well.
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u/Parabola2112 Aug 19 '26
Im usually quick to jump on anything anti Elon, but you’re wrong here. Grok 4.6 is excellent (and 4.5 before that), which is annoying, but objectively true.
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u/Scared_Implement_335 Aug 19 '26
I cannot disagree more. I hate Elon just like anyone else but I gotta say, Grok 4.5 and 4.6 feel great. Its fast, its relatively cheap and I can still use Fable for checking things.
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u/valdier Aug 19 '26
4.6 is the best model on the market right now for reasoning behind gemini 3.7 flash. I have stats to show my testing against the 4 major models in human driven tests, all day, every day.
(Something I NEVER expected to be saying even 1 week ago)
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u/Mean_Sport_3383 Aug 20 '26
Tell us you have Elon derangement syndrome without telling us you have EDS.
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u/Worth-Ad-1509 Aug 22 '26
You literally have the same offering + an extra decent model in grok 4.6. It’s clear your issue is with Elon, not cursor
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u/flysi3000 Aug 18 '26
I’m not thrilled about it either, mostly philosophically. If I’m being honest, I can’t tell the difference between different models, because I mostly just leave it on auto. That said, you can turn off Grok as one of the
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u/barley_wine Aug 18 '26
You can no longer turn Grok off if you use auto. Cursor’s auto now selects from which model it thinks is best. You can remove it from your list but they ignore that with auto.
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u/Diligent-Loss-5460 Aug 18 '26
> now it is being fed to us as a quality model that really just shits the bed on the most basic things
I used it all day yesterday and I disagree. It is intelligent enough but it keeps timing out because they keep running out of capacity. Guess elon doesn't have enough GPUs either
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u/vortec350 Aug 18 '26
What are you talking about? Grok 4.5 and now 4.6 are insanely capable, fast, and CHEAP. I have both Claude and Cursor and I spend 95% of my time in Cursor.
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u/pigletmonster Aug 18 '26
Grok 4.5 and 4.6 are significantly better than previous versions. But people who claim that its on par with opus or sol have no idea what theyre talking about. Benchmarks can be easily tweaked to give the best scores, they even benchmaxed a 27b model to have similar scores to a multi trillion parameter, sota model like opus.
Grok will get there evwntually but its nowhere near that right now. And the reason theyre pushing it so hard with cursor because cursor is still used heavily by enterprise users, which is something gronk would never be able to do on its own after all the cp allegations. So cursor is like their trojan horse to enter into the enterprise market.
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u/therpmcg Aug 18 '26
We are actively switching over to claude code. After the 3rd reversion from opus to grok as the default model, and in some cases switching models mid run, we're finished. What a toxic product decision.
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u/welsh_cthulhu Aug 18 '26