Fahmid Uddin

My thoughts on Cursor and the Anthropic rate limiting downtime

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Just a thought on Cursor and the fact that Anthropic rate limiting basically doesn't let me do anything right now. I've been developing with Cursor and Claude-3.5-Sonnet (recently 3.7-thinking) for last few months now. I've gotten to a point where I realized 1 hour of no-Cursor coding can be done in 10 minutes or less using Cursor agent. It's absolutely amazing, let me just say that.


But because of the issues with Anthropic's endpoint, I was forced to try out gpt-4o, and other models. But nothing beats Claude-3.5(7)-Sonnet. The flow of work and bug-free features are unbeatable. I also started exploring something else -> Void IDE. It's a Y Combinator backed open-source tool just like Cursor. I also learned that Qwen-2.5-coder would be a good open source model to code, on par with Anthropic's model when it comes to coding. Combining these two things, I won't need Cursor anymore. However, I didn't go that route because Void still has some catching up to do, but they'll get there.


My point of this post is, if Cursor doesn't prioritize powerful coding flow for users paying $40+/month to use their platform, eventually all will churn to open-source tools like Void and Qwen-2.5. Needless to mention, in the coming weeks and months we'll reach a 'mini-singularity' point for coding, where I can combine all these open source tools to just create.

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Ansel Bastian

Really interesting take! 🚀 It’s crazy how much productivity gains tools like Cursor + Claude-3.5(7) can bring, but rate limiting can definitely be a dealbreaker.

Open-source alternatives like Void + Qwen-2.5 are catching up fast, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they become serious contenders soon.

Do you think Cursor will adapt, or is the shift to open-source inevitable? 🤔

Daniel Dahlström

I haven't tried Void and Qwen-2.5 and I’m curious. What does Void have that Cline and RooCode don’t? Because I should be able to use Qwen-2.5 with those as well right?

Fahmid Uddin

@peyya I don't know Cline and RooCode. Void is YC-backed. You should be able to use Qwen-2.5-coder in any of them, if they support local llms.