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by softwaredoug 314 days ago
I feel like they should have let GPT 5 overlap in experimental mode for a month or so. It took a while to get the kinks out of GPT-4 until people trusted it. Just switching it on is really hurting their brand.

The fact they didn’t do this makes me think their finances are in very bad shape.

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I agree, I just don't understand how the team at Cursor can say this:

“GPT-5 is the smartest coding model we've used. Our team has found GPT-5 to be remarkably intelligent, easy to steer, and even to have a personality we haven’t seen in any other model. It not only catches tricky, deeply-hidden bugs but can also run long, multi-turn background agents to see complex tasks through to the finish—the kinds of problems that used to leave other models stuck. It’s become our daily driver for everything from scoping and planning PRs to completing end-to-end builds.”

The cynic in me thinks that Cursor had to give positive PR in order to secure better pricing...