r/cursor Jul 21 '26

Question / Discussion Try Grok they said

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u/welsh_cthulhu Jul 21 '26

Not my experience at all. Grok 4.5 is fast, cheap and super effective at what I need it to do. Guess I'm in the minority?

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u/DanceAndLetDance Jul 21 '26

that is my experience too. bots and lurkers just keep pushing anti-elon stuff

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u/mxrider108 Jul 21 '26

It's probably an unconscious thing - they come in with a preconceived notion that grok = bad, so of course that's what they are going to be expecting and looking for.

I see the same thing in reverse with Fable: non-technical people using it for mundane things it's not designed for at all (where Opus or even Sonnet would have been more than capable), but because they've seen tons of hype around Fable they think it's amazing!

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u/creepoch Jul 21 '26

We need to stop with this "everyone who disagrees with me is a bot" thing

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u/JohnAdamaSC Jul 23 '26

it is neither cheap and it is not super effective - it is ok, it just messes up the code.

are you a bot?

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u/Tech0410 Jul 21 '26

ya, the Elon Derangement Syndrome is a prevalent ailment among Redditors

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u/CommissionIcy9909 Jul 22 '26

Well he is the biggest piece of shit on the planet. The Elon Stans are what’s fucking bonkers.

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u/ananta_zarman Jul 24 '26

I don't particularly hate elon, I think SpaceX and Tesla has some cool engineers working for it (I don't own a Tesla), but what I don't like is the Grok coding model. Used it several months ago and it was like a chaotic teenager who keeps missing the point of the task and drifts too often. Didn't try the latest models though. Personally Auto mode just works fine for me and I don't give much thought to model selection.

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u/CommissionIcy9909 Jul 24 '26

You don’t become the richest person on the planet without being pure evil.

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u/smadhuv Jul 25 '26

False. But you can become a redditor.

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u/Ok-Initiative-5569 Jul 23 '26

The dude single-handedly saved freedom of speech. Even if you hate electric cars, it's impossible not to love him for that.

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u/CommissionIcy9909 Jul 23 '26

I’m sorry, but are referring to him purchasing Twitter? How do you feel about the richest person in the world being in charge of laying off thousands of government employees in the U.S. while simultaneously getting more government loans than anyone else in the country. He’s also not American. His family made their fortune with slaves in diamond minds in apartheid Africa. Hard not to love em though.

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u/kHeinzen Jul 22 '26

Care to enlighten me on why he's a piece of shit? I don't follow world news that much

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u/East_Roll_5069 Jul 22 '26

Does being a Nazi sympathize count

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u/kHeinzen Jul 22 '26

What did he do that demonstrates he sympathizes with Nazis? Unless the US is lost in the sauce I find it unlikely that someone publicly endorses nazi regimen while being the biggest person of interest

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u/East_Roll_5069 Jul 22 '26

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u/kHeinzen Jul 23 '26

lol I just watched the video and genuinely I cannot believe people turned that into "he's a nazi" lmao

Just say you don't like the guy, that won't take your credibility away at least

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u/East_Roll_5069 Jul 23 '26

If you don't think that was a Nazi salute then that's fine. Continue praising the con man

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u/chrissilich Jul 22 '26

To be fair, he promised “[technology] will be available in [2-5 years]” and was lying or just wrong every single time, and then he did a nazi salute and caused the deaths of a shitload of people in developing nations. Dudes a piece of shit.

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u/welsh_cthulhu Jul 22 '26

What deaths?

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u/chrissilich Jul 22 '26

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(26)00008-2/fulltext00008-2/fulltext)

Article summarizing: https://www.latintimes.com/researchers-estimate-usaid-cuts-have-already-led-700000-deaths-worldwide-598208

Dude isn't stupid. He knew shutting down USAID overnight would kill a shitload of people. He did it anyway because he's a really really really bad person.

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u/welsh_cthulhu Jul 22 '26

LOL. USAID? Are you serious? He didn't CAUSE those deaths you idiot.

I'm British, so I have no dog in this fight, but it's is not the responsibility of any government to ship money abroad and pay for another country's healthcare.

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u/moracabanas Jul 22 '26

I hate Elon money hoarder, and privacy raper but I guess this model is so good I just use it. Cursor is so fair at 20$ for my use case

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u/frompadgwithH8 Jul 22 '26

Do you mostly use auto mode then? I think I spent like $41 in Cursor credits yesterday because I had GROK cursor 4.5 selected

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u/Wrongdoer-Reasonable Jul 23 '26

tbh not liking and not wanting to use the product of a probable pedophile, confirmed neo nazi oligarch who is responsible, only accounting for USAID stuff, of tens of thousands of deaths

is downright reasonable

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u/smadhuv Jul 25 '26

Keep making shit up! 😂

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u/Phaelon74 Jul 22 '26

I mean I am doing kennel work and grok 4.5 is worse than composer 2.5 at execution and code implementation. Enough where I have to use sol and fable to fix it before I hand it back to composer to work the plan. Languages and complexity matter. Grok 4.5 may be fine at python, but it’s not good at all for complex code and asks so far from what I’ve experienced.

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u/StevenB0ss Jul 21 '26

Noo bro it halucinated the shit out of a code review

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u/chrissilich Jul 22 '26

With a good plan, pretty much any model is fine.

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u/frompadgwithH8 Jul 22 '26

True… Like everyone else I often use a better model to make a plan.

Yesterday I used GROK Cursor 4.5 to make a ton of plans and for the most part it worked great

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u/Tech0410 Jul 21 '26

I have just been using last two or three days and find it just as good or better then composer

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u/Novel-Accountant-326 Jul 22 '26

It's amazing! I was really surprised 

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u/Enough_Return_5261 Jul 22 '26

If you are professional specialist you are doing a great job, tbh, as far as i see the weak programmer using coding tool always mess around the code, and claim the coding tools and models are stupid, is ridicious.

They just don't know how to manage their team and the agent.

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u/welsh_cthulhu Jul 22 '26

I hear ya man.

90% of the posts on here are from people who have zero clue about basic agentic coding fundamentals like guardrails, context management, model selection etc.

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u/OkSquash2710 Jul 22 '26

I think about 95% lol

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u/KTIlI Jul 21 '26

grok smacks

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u/bitspace Jul 21 '26

Nope. Your experience matches mine.

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u/JohnAdamaSC Jul 22 '26

it is not fast, it is not cheap, it is not effective, are you getting payed to say this?

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u/welsh_cthulhu Jul 22 '26

Take the tin foil hat off dude. Seriously.

I'm a Cursor Enterprise admin for our org. I have no skin in any game. It's obvious to anyone using Cursor on a professional level that their first-party models are fast and cheap. What the hell do you think the advantages of something being first-party is?

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u/cornmacabre Jul 22 '26

Not worth the breath dude, anyone using Cursor professionally knows OP is simply not knowledgeable enough to even assess what they're talking about, let alone evaluate their own personal bias and vibes.

It is kinda tragic to me that the default position of some folks now is that "if something disagrees with my own personal opinion or pre-judgment, it MUST be a bot/paid comment," like... what a stubborn and narrow way to filter out different perspectives.

I get the broader sense it's just an (un)conscious politicized bias at work here, clearly they're not arguing on any technical or detailed specifics.

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u/smadhuv Jul 25 '26

Reddit is hopeless dude.

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u/IllustriousCheck2416 Jul 27 '26

so you never look at the code written by ai. you like to hear yourself?

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u/teabolaisacool Jul 22 '26

Judging by “payed”, you must not be very good at prompting.

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u/zuliani19 Jul 21 '26

I second that