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Vibe Coding2026-07-17 · source-backed
On July 16, Cursor doubled the included usage of Cursor-hosted models on all plans, giving more headroom for Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5 before you hit metered overages. It's a capacity bump, not a feature, but it's material if you were getting rate-limited into switching models mid-task. Read it as the client side of the price-collapse story: when inference gets cheaper, the tools pass some of it through to keep you from wandering off.
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For a year the pitch was "one great AI pair programmer." That's over. stablyai/orca, a YC-backed open-source "agent development environment," blew past 12,500 GitHub stars by running Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, OpenCode, Pi, and 30+ other CLI agents side by side, each in...
Roughly $7.50, billed in INR with UPI support. Includes Grok 4.5 and Composer, always-on cloud agents, Cursor for iOS with remote control, and full extensibility via plugins, MCP servers, hooks and skills. The segmentation is on *model access*, not agentic capability, which is...
xAI launched Grok 4.5 and Grok Build on July 8, trained partly on Cursor developer-session data. The numbers are loud: 83.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 64.7% on SWE-Bench Pro, priced at $2/$6 per million tokens. On a single coding task that works out to roughly $2.49 versus $11.80...
Bugbot now finds ~10% more bugs per review (0.62 vs 0.56) at ~22% lower cost per run. A new /review flow runs Bugbot and Security Review before push, dedups against the eventual PR, and supports incremental "only what's new" review. Cursor also added always-on Automations with...
I don't care that Grok 4.5 ranks #4. I care that it resolves a SWE-Bench Pro task with an average of 15,954 output tokens where Opus 4.8 spends 67,020. That's a 4.2x efficiency gap, and it lands straight in my monthly bill. SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 8, a roughly 1.5T-...
The coding agent wars just entered a new phase. Cursor isn't just an IDE anymore. It's a model company. Cursor released Composer 2.5 on May 18 with a custom agentic coding model trained using 25x more synthetic tasks than Composer 2 and a novel "targeted textual feedback" appr...
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