u/Borat_2020

With the latest updates to Codex CLI, I think it’s time for me to say goodbye to Cursor.

I genuinely hope the Elon deal helps Cursor build a frontier model around Composer that can compete directly with OpenAI and Anthropic. Because after using Codex CLI heavily, the economics are hard to ignore.

If I had been running the same workload through Cursor’s API pricing, it would have already cost me over $5,000.

That’s the real issue: Cursor can’t just be a great IDE wrapper anymore. With the direction Codex CLI is going, Cursor needs its own frontier-level model to stay competitive.

Otherwise, power users are going to follow the better model, better tooling, and better economics.