Composer 2.5 is my new default. It is fast, accurate, and actually cheap
ok so i'd basically trained myself to use gpt 5.5 for anything that wasn't trivial. like if it touched more than one file or needed to actually understand the codebase, that was the default. got used to the quality and stopped questioning it.
tried composer 2.5 mostly because i was curious and didn't want to burn credits on another "fix this lint error" loop.
and it's... good? like annoyingly good for how fast it is.
stuff lands in the right files, doesn't rewrite half the module for no reason, picks up our weird patterns without me pasting three examples every time. i'm not sitting there undoing agent slop as much.
also it's fast. which sounds dumb until you've been staring at a spinner between turns for 20 minutes on a refactor.
and yeah: CHEAP. i know that's boring to post about but when you're in cursor all day it adds up. gpt 5.5 habits get expensive fast.
still use the heavy models sometimes for truly cursed bugs. but for normal work — features, fixes, "why is this broken" — i've been leaving composer 2.5 on and not switching back.
anyone else or am i just in a good week