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Regardless of whatever the latest flagship models can do, I&#x27;ve always thought Cursor has had the best agentic IDE experience <i>around</i> the models. Not necessarily giving the best results overall--since that is very dependent on the strength of the models you use, and always using the flagship models can be real difference--but as for everything around the actual models, Cursor is up there, if not the best, in my humble opinion.<p>Lately however, using Cursor&#x27;s built-in models, since they give you way more usage for those, I have been really impressed. Before, if it wasn&#x27;t the latest and greatest model from OpenAI or Anthropic (especially Anthropic), it always felt like I was getting less.<p>For me, the frontier around Opus 4.6 was when agentic coding started really feeling real. As long as you asked something that was possible, and asked in the right way (being specific to exactly what you want), the models could genuinely do anything a human developer could do, and do it right. That was huge for me, and I pretty much exclusively relied on higher tier models from there on, as some of the projects I work on are very gnarly.<p>With Grok 4.6 though, it&#x27;s genuinely reached that level. It shouldn&#x27;t feel this way, because it still feels like I&#x27;m still paying for a cheap Chinese or open-source model (no offense intended), but I&#x27;m getting exactly what I need. If I&#x27;m not getting the results I want , I honestly can&#x27;t say it&#x27;s ever the model&#x27;s fault. It&#x27;s remarkably rare, and Grok 4.7 is even a step up from that!<p>This, along with the fact that as long as you don&#x27;t enable the fast option or higher context windows, it&#x27;s almost impossible to use all your included usage, has made the value proposition for Cursor really incredible for me. I pay $20 a month, and I can (not exaggerating) do several competent 100,000 LOC+ refactors every month without even hitting 50% on included Cursor models usage.<p>I bring this all up to ask: why is nobody talking about this? I&#x27;m not paid by anyone to endorse anything. I&#x27;m just a guy. But as a guy who is thoroughly impressed, it&#x27;s my opinion that this is the best offer in the space right now. OpenAI and Anthropic have better models, and therefore offer better results, but the performance gap is genuinely not much, and the corresponding prices are definitely not this cheap, nor the access this available. That and the fact that the surrounding IDE is pleasure to use, more people should be aware of this.

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/6 00:03:00