r/cursor

Hi everyone,

I recently switched to Cursor Pro and it's been great so far. I feel like I'm probably missing some best practices that more experienced users have picked up over time.

Is there anything you always do while coding with Cursor, especially before committing or deploying? How do you use it to improve code quality and architecture?

Also, what's the biggest problem or frustration you've had with Cursor? I'd love to hear what you've learned.

Image speaks for itself. Tried using composer 2.5 as much as I could this billing cycle in an attempt to max out my $60 plan. Didn't max it out unfortunately! Better luck next month 😄

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$60 Pro+ plan gives you on Composer 2.5:
682.4 M / 40.6% * 100% = 1.680.780.000 tokens a month

$60 Pro+ plan gives you on Auto:
299.7 M / 26% * 100% = 1.152.690.000 tokens a month

$60 Pro+ plan gives you on Composer 2.5 Fast:
18 M / 4.4% * 100% = 409.100.000 tokens a month

I love Composer 2.5, I've said it before & will keep repeating it: best value for money.

Thank you Cursor! 💯

I caught myself asking claude how to write a debounce function last week, a DEBOUNCE function, I've written that thing from scratch probably 30 times since like 2015

so im 11 years in. Six months ago reviewing was maybe a fifth of my day, now it's most of it. The juniors prompt their way through features with Cursor or Claude Code, coderabbit does the first pass so the nitpicky stuff is gone before I even open the PR, and I just sit there all day checking architecture and business logic like some kind of code customs officer.

And the weird thing is I'm genuinely better at reviewing now. I catch stuff across PRs I never used to, two people quietly building the same helper in different corners of the repo, a refactor that changes behavior nobody asked it to change. That's a real skill and it's sharper than ever.

But the writing muscle is going and I can feel it going. I sat down to build a small thing for myself last weekend, no deadline, nobody waiting on it, and I kept reaching for the agent to scaffold it. I forced myself to do it by hand and it was slow and clumsy and kind of embarrassing (not fishing for "just practice more lol" btw, I know)

I know the job is shipping working software and not suffering for the craft. Still feels like losing something

anyone else deep in review mode and noticing this

Just recently cancelled the Codex $100 plan after their 10x rate limit was over, jumped on Cursor $20 plan and I feel like it does a better job than Codex did at front-end work that I primarily do. Codex on the 10x felt pretty limitless but maybe that was cause of the 10x usage window. Cursor so far feels a bit better and $20 Pro even got me quite a bit of stuff done and very happy with it.

Has anyone switched between the Cursor Ultra 20x and Codex 5x recently? Curious to know for $100 which ones better (I will assume Cursor Ultra 20x). I understand comparing Cursor Ultra 20x to Codex Plus 20x is probably a better apples to apples comparison but just in terms of where $100 is better spent for the month.

Thank you.

Edit: Im just going to buy Cursor Ultra 20x, will report back after a few weeks.

I'm from India and I'm trying to purchase Cursor AI Pro, but my payment isn't going through. Has anyone in India been able to buy it successfully?

I've been using Cursor on a few larger repositories recently, and one thing keeps standing out.

Before it makes the first meaningful edit, it often spends a fair amount of time:

• searching
• opening files
• following imports
• trying to understand the structure

Once it finds the right place, the coding itself usually goes pretty well.

I'm curious if other people see the same thing.

Have you found anything that reduces that exploration phase?

• Better project structure?
• AGENTS.md?
• MCP?
• Something else?

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Hi everyone,

I think my Pro usage dashboard is having a rounding or synchronization glitch.

The main "Total" progress bar shows 5%, but the breakdown underneath says 6% for Auto + Composer and 0% for API.

Mathematically, it doesn't add up since the sub-bar already exceeds the total. Has anyone else ran into this UI bug recently? Hopefully, the dev team can fix this tracking calculation.

Saw someone say they found a way to bypass the claude 5 hour limit by using opus on microsoft azure

bro, that’s just the api

that’s not a loophole that’s literally how the product works

same energy as “i discovered you can save context in a markdown file”

real programmers reading this must be like

what the fuck are these people discovering

and i say this as one of them

i also learned what env variables are like 2 months ago lol

I’m new to cursor and looking for any helpful tips on how to curtail usage. If anyone is kind enough and willing to share. I’m newish to OOP (7months of self teaching) and I liked that cursor lets me continue to grow learning to write code and rewiring how I think mentally.

But i must be doing something wrong here with it. I’ve had cursor for 14 hrs and already at 37% usage. Only used for review and assistance with two scripts. Which while they were fairly complex in a non widely used language, each one was still under 100 lines each.

Any noob friendly advice is greatly appreciated.

MCP makes coding agents much more useful, but it also makes me pause before connecting anything with real write access.

Read-only tools feel easy to justify. Let the agent search docs, inspect issues, query logs, maybe read database schema. That saves time and the blast radius is limited. But the moment a tool can mutate something, I get much more careful. Send email. Edit production data. Change DNS. Close GitHub issues. Touch billing. Modify local network config. Those are not “just coding” anymore.

GitHub was the clearest example for me: letting the agent read issues, PR diffs, and CI logs felt obviously worth it, but I still won't give it merge, push, or close-issue powers without me re-reading the diff line by line.

I know approval prompts help, but I’m not fully relaxed about them. If the agent is in a long task and I’m tired, I can still approve a command too quickly. And for remote MCP, I also have to trust the server, the permissions, the logs, and my own memory of what I connected last week.

How are people drawing the line here? Do you make MCP tools read-only by default? Which actions require human approval every time? Are there tools you simply refuse to expose to agents? And for solo projects, do you use separate tokens with tiny permissions, or is that too much overhead?

Maybe I’m too cautious, but I would rather have a slightly slower agent than one that can quietly change the wrong thing.

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😭😭

Post name speeaks for itself. Coursor says "Youve hit your usage limit", so I decided to check my account. But the funny thing is

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Only 70% of my included usage IS used. So i`m far from finishing it, I should have at least several more prompts, but no. "Youve hit your limit". What the hell?