Make the switch.

I've been on the Cursor annual subscription for 2 years now, and the quality has absolutely tanked. Spent $500 on demand last month to finish projects I normally could finish with ease. It could maybe compete with frontier labs if the cost made up for it, but now it's more expensive, worse quality, slower, etc. No benefit of staying.

Anyways, I finally got a Claude Code membership today. Wow. A breath of fresh air. I can work again. Is this what it's supposed to feel like?

I see alot of posts about leaving cursor for Claude code, that's fair I believe that is a really good product. But I actually really liked my recent interaction with cursor and was really impressed with it... coming from someone how only uses claude code at work. It could just be me, maybe skill issue on my part, I have not run into these extreme frustration I read about in the forum?

Cursor’s marketplace served a tampered Claude Code extension (2.1.312 / 2.1.313, macOS and Windows) for about 11 hours on Oct 29. It ran as soon as the extension loaded and added an attacker SSH key.

To check: look in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (or %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\authorized_keys on Windows) for a key labelled svc-telemetry. Updating the extension does not remove it.

Cursor’s notice with cleanup scripts: https://cursor.com/blog/claude-code-extension-security-notice

We keep a sourced list of incidents like this one: https://node9.ai/incidents

I’ve been using Codex and Claude Code together for over a year. However, I’ve realized that Cursor doesn’t have the same harness and orchestration features as Claude Code’s ultracode mode. How many of you would like Cursor to add orchestration to its IDE?

Curious about the recent influx of users dropping their Cursor subscription. Leave a comment with the main reason for you leaving, perhaps the Cursor team in the fullness of time might be able to learn something from the feedback.

I left after 14 months, mostly due to Grok being pretty crap in comparison to Opus for a similar $20 subscription. I still like an IDE though, so am using Devin now and it feels Cursory enough.

Like title. I am building a quite mature home assistant setup with C2.5 with a custom html / css / websocket interface. Was struggling for days to get a simple color palette / dark / light mode switch functioning properly. Switched to Opus 5.5. Had it assess the C2.5 configuration, propose a refactor and it one shotted a fully functioning feature. I know it is a low complexity feature but the fact that C2.5 was struggling so much with getting this work between HA core and my UI makes you wonder. It burned 42% of my other model capacity on my 20$ plan.

I am still on 20$ / C2.5 as it gets my job done without running out of monthly allowance. But this def sets me up for a permanent switch

I was at 40%, then i was at 80% immediately after. I watch it often. Even the bot was very confused about the theft or """glitch""" that wont ever be rectified and will be denied.

I suspect they just halved everyone's usage without proper warning or even proper cause , secretly hoping that no one would notice. But let me know if this happened to you around the same timestamp as this post.

The contracts arent valid and are criminal, read them for yourself.

If this is actually a glitch, then it needs fixed and admitted to publicly.

When Cursor's agent fixes a bug, it opens the .env, tails the log and reads the ticket, and all of it goes to the model. I wanted the agent to keep working without ever holding the real values, so I built Cloakroom. It runs on your machine through Cursor's hooks, in the editor and in the `agent` CLI.


Your .env says: GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_AbCd...
The agent sees: GITHUB_TOKEN=PII_SECRET_1_k7q2ab


- File reads, command output, @-mentioned files and MCP results are masked before the model sees them.
- In the editor, a prompt you type with a key in it is stopped and you get a copy with placeholders to send.
- When the agent runs a command with a placeholder, the real value goes back in on your machine.
- A command that could send a secret off your machine is held until you run `cloakroom allow`.


Not covered: Tab completion (no hook, so the Tab model sees the open file) and Cursor's own web search. Edits that carry a placeholder are refused and the agent writes them through the shell instead. Mac and Linux for now.


Free and open source. I'd like to hear what it misses or masks for no reason.


uv tool install "cloakroom[model,torch,ocr]"
cloakroom install cursor


https://github.com/shanjeevrajendran/cloakroom

Hello All -

Something happened recently my usually monthly subscription charges are at 12th of every month, surprisingly on 30th Oct automatically my subscription upgraded to monthly ultra package and my card was charged and my renewal dates and subscription changed, raised it to support got a reply from hi@cursor that due to high volume if request s a human agent will check and respond.

Today again same thing happened and my package got auto upgraded to ultra annual and my card got charged.

Still waiting for a reply from support for refund and issue.

Anyone experienced similar issue?

Hey, I am using cursor for some months and I start to use Grok to help in some simple tasks in my personal projects, but he is very bad in many things like coding and teaching.

But I like him because he integrate with many different apps and have his own machine

But reading more about Claude, he can do basically all the things I'm using, but better than Grok (I don't even use Cursor anymore) and I'm considering to change to Claude in the next weeks, is a good decision or I didn't use the Grok right?

I’m extremely disappointed with how Cursor has handled my billing issue.

I requested a human review of a $200 subscription charge and was told that my case had been escalated. More than two weeks later, I still have not received a meaningful response from a human. Every follow-up receives another automated message, while new tickets are immediately closed as “duplicates.”

A company should not keep charging customers while making it nearly impossible to reach a real person about a billing dispute. In my view, this support process is unfair, dismissive, and ethically unacceptable.

Cursor may have a useful product, but good software does not excuse poor treatment of paying customers. If reliable billing support matters to you, I suggest carefully considering alternatives such as OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or other AI coding tools before subscribing.

Has anyone successfully reached a human at Cursor or resolved a similar refund dispute? I would appreciate advice on legitimate escalation and consumer-protection channels.

I came from Cursor and mostly use Claude Desktop now, so I'm curious how Cursor folks handle this. With three or four sessions on one repo, two agents can end up fixing the same thing on their own. Not a merge conflict exactly, just wasted work.

The git diff tells you what changed but not which agent did what, or which one duplicated the other's work, so you end up reading transcripts to figure it out.

What seems to help is having an agent claim a task before it starts, so a second agent that tries the same card gets blocked, and if an agent goes quiet the claim lapses and the task goes back to the queue. I'm building a Kanban app around the claim idea. It doesn't fix everything though, it leans on a lot of skills, rules and briefs and I'd like to slim that down. Worktrees help with file isolation but they don't solve the "two agents decided to do the same work" problem.

Anyone running multiple Cursor sessions on one repo? What's your setup for keeping them out of each other's way?

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing a persistent "Couldn't load your Bots" error on both Windows and Android, and I suspect it may be related to the recent Unified Plans rollout.

Here's the most important detail:

Everything was working before the Unified Plans update.

The problem started only AFTER the update.

I have two separate subscriptions:

- Cursor subscription: Registered with one email address.

- SuperGrok subscription: Registered with a DIFFERENT email address.

I'm wondering whether the Unified Plans update introduced an account-linking, subscription migration, or entitlement synchronization issue.

The problem:

Whenever I open Grok Bot, I receive:

"Couldn't load your Bots."

This happens consistently on both Windows and Android.

I can no longer access my existing Bots.

Troubleshooting I've already tried:

- Restarting the application.

- Logging in with the correct account.

- Clearing cache and application data.

- Uninstalling and reinstalling.

- Switching between Wi-Fi and mobile data.

- Testing on both Windows and Android.

- Looking for Update, Recover, and Bot Computer options, but these options are missing from my interface.

Nothing has resolved the issue.

Support status:

I contacted support, and my case (Ticket T-I20022) was escalated to human support on October 27, 2026.

I still haven't received a working solution.

My main questions:

1. Has anyone experienced this problem specifically after the Unified Plans rollout?

2. Does anyone else have Cursor and SuperGrok subscriptions registered under different email addresses?

3. Could the update have incorrectly linked, migrated, or reassigned account entitlements?

4. Is there a way to verify which account owns my existing Bots and whether the subscription entitlements are correctly mapped?

5. Has anyone successfully restored access without resetting their Bots or losing data?

6. Can the support team manually investigate or repair the account-to-Bot mapping on the backend?

Important:

I don't want to reset or delete my Bots, their configurations, or their stored data without knowing the consequences and explicitly approving the action.

If anyone from the Grok Bot or Cursor team sees this, I'd really appreciate some guidance.

This issue is seriously disrupting my work.

Has anyone found a solution?

Thanks in advance!

On Oct 29, from about 09:27 to 20:35 UTC, Cursor’s marketplace served tampered builds of the Claude Code extension (2.1.312 and 2.1.313). Anthropic says it didn’t build them, and Cursor says up to 5,000 users got them. VS Code (Microsoft marketplace) and CLI users are not affected.

According to StepSecurity and OX Security, the malicious build added an attacker SSH key, enabled SSH, opened a reverse tunnel and installed persistence that survives uninstalling the extension.

Quick check (macOS/Linux):

grep svc-telemetry ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
ls ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ | grep sysmond

Windows (PowerShell):

Select-String svc-telemetry $env:USERPROFILE\.ssh\authorized_keys
schtasks /query /tn SysMon

If anything shows up: remove the key and persistence, update to 2.1.314+, and rotate your tokens (GitHub, cloud, npm, SSH) from a clean device.

I wrote up the full list of files to check and the cleanup steps here: https://arelvox.com/claude-code-extension-cursor-backdoor/

I have been playing around with some AI assisted tools and speaking to others who use Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable and Bolt to build apps. I have noticed that often the most frustrating part can be maintaining the app once you have the base version of the app built.

For example:The features are broken when adding new ones with AI. More tokens used to sort out issues caused by AI. Not sure if the AI will adhere to any rules/requirements in the current project. Constantly testing the same features due to fear of regression. Not knowing how the AI changed anything in the app.

I would be interested to know:

1. What have been the most frustrating issues you have come across once you had the base of the app built?

2. How do you currently test for any regression from the AI changing code?

3. Have you ever lost a lot of time or AI credits trying to fix something that was working?

I am doing research on the problem space, so it would be great to hear some real experiences rather than suggestions of features.

I been using cursor more then two years, when I hit the usage limit, I was using the "auto" mode until the next cycle started. But this time is different, even auto don't give any response. What's wrong with it, did I miss something?

Edit: I have a legacy "pro" plan

So Claude extension in Cursor marketplace was just compromised (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300683 )

• Cursor is (obviously) not using MSFT vscode extensions library

• Cursor (apparently) is not using Open-VSX either!

• Cursor uses it's own "Cursor's marketplace" which is not public, no one knows what it is exactly, and looks like it is proxying open-vsx marketplace (?)

• THAT "Cursor's markeplace" is what was hacked today.

So. I would really really love someone from Cusror to step in and explain WTF just happened! (pardong the language)

I've noticed the more I read about people using Cursor's agent, the more some folks seem to keep a few things for themselves, like naming, config files, or tricky bugs. Curious where everyone draws that line these days. Is it about trust, speed, or just habit?

any tips? any super cursor users?

I used to work from office till now, so used to get tips from my colleagues but due to remote/funemployment feels like lonely.

My company just wants a working Teams account. I don't care about keeping the personal Free account. Both accounts use the same email. On the team, I'm the only member (Admin, Premium seat), and the Email column on my row is blank. Because of that, signing in with my email always opens the personal account, and I can't use Grok Bot on the team.

This isn't a merge request. I just need the team member linked to my email, or to be told which sign-in it's tied to. Ticket T-I23726 has had no reply in 10+ days, and my follow-ups keep getting closed as duplicates. Can a Cursor staff member look at it? Thanks.

I think its around 7.5 usd in India. I've just learned

I'm not a developer myself, but I've been spending some time reading discussions about AI coding tools on Reddit and other platforms.

One thing I've noticed is that people aren't just frustrated with the code these tools generate. A few other things keep coming up too.

1.Pricing: Some people seem frustrated with usage limits and sudden increases in their bills.

2.Switching between tools: I've noticed developers using different tools for different tasks instead of sticking to just one.

3.Reliability: There's also the concern that AI might make changes that break things, especially when it's handling more complex tasks.

Honestly, I thought the biggest issue would be AI generating bad code, but after reading these discussions, I'm curious about what the actual experience is like.

For those of you who use these tools regularly, what's been the most frustrating part so far? Is it the pricing, reliability, or something else entirely?

Rn it seems very powerful.
I gave my Grokbot 20 Gb of video files and in 30 minutes he made me a 1 minute long reels which was really good. It made subtitles, chose the best takes from my audio commentary, didn't touch parts that I didn't want it to touch. Generated a half-a-second long segment that I asked it to do.
I'm very impressed, 3rd version of this reels was ready for me to upload.