alt Hacker NewsGPT contender. There has been talk on the cursor forums. I think largely people have e slept on coding models and stick with Anthropic thinking it’s the best. Composer fit that niche of extremely fast and smart enough. Sometimes you just want a model that has a near instant response. The new Gemini preview is overtaking my usage of Composer.
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enraged_camel • yesterday at 6:20 PM
I used it extensively for a week and gave it an honest chance. It’s really good for quickly troubleshooting small bugs. It doesn’t come anywhere close to Opus 4.5 though.
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The problem is companies like OpenAI have the upper hand here as they show with the Codex models.
Which is what I was mentioning elsewhere. They build huge models with infinite money and distill them for certain tasks. Cursor doesn't have the funding, nor would it be wise, to try to replicate that.