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cursor just made every $200/month copilot subscription look like a scam dropped today with their own coding model what took 8 hours of manual coding now takes 30 seconds and it runs 8 versions of itself in parallel to pick the best solution while github's charging $20/month for autocomplete,... cursor built an entire autonomous dev team composer model: → 4x faster than gpt/claude → completes full features in <30 seconds → tests its own code automatically → built with reinforcement learning on real codebases here's what's actually wild: most companies paying $150k/year for junior devs to do work this does for $20/month just saved a client $253k/month migrating their dev work to cursor's multi-agent system the intelligence gap between "we hired 3 developers" and "we deployed cursor" is getting stupid comment "COMPOSER" and ill send the full breakdown of how to replace your dev costs with thisshow more

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Oli11 months ago

Peak linkedin slop posting, $20 plan gets you a grand total of 5 mins of usage. 4x faster than gpt but worse and slower than the Chinese open source models. 150k for a junior dev 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 absolute slop engagement farm

George D Gregory11 months ago

A bit of an exaggeration? $20/m won't do it for any reasonable work. You would need at least $60/m + $40/m Bugbot subscription. This is comparable with Claude Code $100/m. Next-level Cursor subscription is $200/m. They in the same price category as everybody else, maybe more expensive.

gary IH fung11 months ago

you know what's wild? you are muted

Gregori11 months ago

This is not LinkedIn lil bro

Hawa11 months ago

Github co pilot is much much better value at $10/m for real developers We dont need a yolo full codebase writer everytime, mostly we just need it for fast code generation of repeated or look alike functions and test code which $10/m co pilot can easily do at high accuracy

Matek11 months ago

Actually it’s not nice what you are saying that junior could be replaced by the composer. Certainly it’s not true because you will have to spend much more time on composer with limited possibilities (it can’t do a lot of things with infra or other things like this) than teaching junior to get know company sources.

Develo DAO11 months ago

Cursor FTW! Also, juniors are going extinct slowly, which is cost effective, but not really good for the future, as there is not really abundance of Seniors, and what happens when they retire? Who knows maybe by that time need for developers at all will vanish...

human11 months ago

"what took 8 hours of manual coding now takes 30 seconds"--hottest quote of 2025

Victor11 months ago

On paper, but not actually. Lol. Cursor's UI is just awful. You have 0 control over execution process.

Snowiee11 months ago

Kuch bhi

Kevin Deason11 months ago

The biggest scam is cursor charging $40 for a team plan and only giving you $20 of token usage. wtf is the other $20 for.

Divvyansh Gandhi11 months ago

"just saved a client $253k/month migrating their dev work to cursor's multi-agent system" - any proof? What was the pipeline in which you have autonomously embedded these multi-agents?

Emb11 months ago

Until you pay for the subscription and figure out very quickly that it's just more Ai industry hype and is as bad as all the rest.

kingdom_blow11 months ago

Composer

splntrb11 months ago

COMPOSER

Rish11 months ago

Composer

Max Alstad11 months ago

Composer

GifCo11 months ago

Sounds like you have a skills issue.

echoes209911 months ago

Man you are good at marketing. does the client know the code is shite

Len Seaside11 months ago

They were spending $3m a year through cursor? Why wouldn't you just have your own H100 node if that was the case? That's like spending $3m a year on netflix subscriptions FFS. I call bullshit.

vishnugopy11 months ago

you don't need that $200/month copilot subscription base subscription is enough .

Samir Alibabic11 months ago

Wrong. With their $20/mo subscription you can’t develop a single feature before running out of credits. The $20/m is good for marketing, but to get any actual work done you have to spent at least $200/m for inference. Per feature!

𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚏11 months ago

You are forgetting the part of Cursor being rather over-priced. That 20$ gives you 20$ of API calls and they priced Composer-1 same as GPT-5. So only a bit cheaper than Sonnet 4.5 which some users on Reddit report using up the 20$ quota in as few as 40 requests, few days...

Illogical Coder11 months ago

Running 8 versions of itself sounds like it would burn tokens 8x faster though and cost a fortune in the end.. doesn't it? (I haven't tried that yet)

Nikhil11 months ago

Composer

Crack Dolphin⚡⚡11 months ago

I like the async processing but it is not better than sonnet. Sorry it’s just not there yet.

Logan Spears11 months ago

Composer

Avaya11 months ago

Composer

purusharth11 months ago

COMPOSER

Deepak11 months ago

COMPOSER

Patrick | SaaS Marketer11 months ago

the parallel execution thing is wild but the real bottleneck is still getting cursor to understand your codebase context. seen teams burn through credits because it keeps hallucinating their architecture

Swami11 months ago

Composer

Harrisss11 months ago

Composer

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Wall Street Apes

213,699 views • 3 months ago

Smart money used to mean knowing the right people, being in the right rooms. Now it means having the right agents. For years, building one took five tools, four logins, and a painful month of work. Today, it takes just a single prompt. BNB Agent Studio is live on BNB Smart Chain. Open Cursor or Claude Code, describe the agent you want, and it ships to the chain with its own onchain identity, its own wallet, and a way to pay its own bills. The whole thing runs on Amazon Web Services's Bedrock AgentCore, so your agent stays online long after you've closed your laptop. This is the start of the Smart Money Era. Capital that works for you instead of waiting for you to move it. Agents that monitor markets while you sleep, rebalance positions you'd never get to in time, and hunt yield without checking dashboards. Try BNB Agent Studio for free for a limited time with GitHub login only, with no AWS account or credit card needed. Read the full breakdown in our blog 👇

Smart money used to mean knowing the right people, being in the right rooms. Now it means having the right agents. For years, building one took five tools, four logins, and a painful month of work. Today, it takes just a single prompt. BNB Agent Studio is live on BNB Smart Chain. Open Cursor or Claude Code, describe the agent you want, and it ships to the chain with its own onchain identity, its own wallet, and a way to pay its own bills. The whole thing runs on Amazon Web Services's Bedrock AgentCore, so your agent stays online long after you've closed your laptop. This is the start of the Smart Money Era. Capital that works for you instead of waiting for you to move it. Agents that monitor markets while you sleep, rebalance positions you'd never get to in time, and hunt yield without checking dashboards. Try BNB Agent Studio for free for a limited time with GitHub login only, with no AWS account or credit card needed. Read the full breakdown in our blog 👇

BNB Chain

284,986 views • 3 months ago

SpaceXAI engineer (ex-Cursor): "My GrokBot agents shipped 1,000+ PRs last month. I'm doubling it this month. I'm running 20+ agents in a loop with /loop, /goal and /swarm inside pstack. I have a Chief of Staff, managers and workers. They own tasks, verify the work and ship it without me." Most people are still using GrokBot as a single agent. They're not even using 1% of what this setup can do. In a 1-hour session, a SpaceXAI engineer showed how to build an autonomous team of agents that works 24/7. Honestly, this is worth more than a $500 agentic engineering course. Watch the workshop, then read the full breakdown below to build your own GrokBot agent.

SpaceXAI engineer (ex-Cursor): "My GrokBot agents shipped 1,000+ PRs last month. I'm doubling it this month. I'm running 20+ agents in a loop with /loop, /goal and /swarm inside pstack. I have a Chief of Staff, managers and workers. They own tasks, verify the work and ship it without me." Most people are still using GrokBot as a single agent. They're not even using 1% of what this setup can do. In a 1-hour session, a SpaceXAI engineer showed how to build an autonomous team of agents that works 24/7. Honestly, this is worth more than a $500 agentic engineering course. Watch the workshop, then read the full breakdown below to build your own GrokBot agent.

Andrew

11,587 views • 25 days ago

Do you actually understand what's happening right now. Everyone is talking about AI agents. Nobody is talking about selling them as a business. And this guy just literally built himself a system on a mini PC that makes $20,000/month doing exactly that. Small businesses are paying $20,000-$30,000/month for ops teams doing repetitive work. He replaces 80% of it with Claude agents for $200/month in tools. Charges $2,500/month to maintain them. The client is saving money from day one. He's collecting a retainer forever. 8 clients. $20,000/month. 85% margin. Every business in your city is a potential client. Most of them have never heard of n8n or Claude API. They just know their team spends too much time on things that should be automatic. That's the pitch. That's the business. Most people are still watching. A few are already billing.

Do you actually understand what's happening right now. Everyone is talking about AI agents. Nobody is talking about selling them as a business. And this guy just literally built himself a system on a mini PC that makes $20,000/month doing exactly that. Small businesses are paying $20,000-$30,000/month for ops teams doing repetitive work. He replaces 80% of it with Claude agents for $200/month in tools. Charges $2,500/month to maintain them. The client is saving money from day one. He's collecting a retainer forever. 8 clients. $20,000/month. 85% margin. Every business in your city is a potential client. Most of them have never heard of n8n or Claude API. They just know their team spends too much time on things that should be automatic. That's the pitch. That's the business. Most people are still watching. A few are already billing.

Superior

287,952 views • 3 months ago

GitHub Student Pack + Cursor Pro for a year = everything you need to build a $30K/month startup for free while everyone's paying $20-100/month for AI tools and developer subscriptions, students get all of this for free GitHub Student Developer Pack: > JetBrains all IDEs ($700/year) > GitHub Copilot Pro + GitHub Pro > DigitalOcean $200 cloud credit > Microsoft Azure $100 credit > Notion Education plan > FrontendMasters 6 months > Namecheap domain + SSL > Stripe - fees waived on first $1,000 Cursor Pro 1 Year: > extended limits on Agent > access to all frontier models - GPT, Claude Opus, Gemini > MCPs, skills, and hooks > cloud agents > no card required > takes 2 minutes with your .edu email > no .edu? many countries have their own student verification 📁 Cursor Pro 1 Year ↳ 📁 GitHub Student Pack ↳ combined value: $2,000+ > most students don't know any of this exists bookmark this and share it with every student you know

GitHub Student Pack + Cursor Pro for a year = everything you need to build a $30K/month startup for free while everyone's paying $20-100/month for AI tools and developer subscriptions, students get all of this for free GitHub Student Developer Pack: > JetBrains all IDEs ($700/year) > GitHub Copilot Pro + GitHub Pro > DigitalOcean $200 cloud credit > Microsoft Azure $100 credit > Notion Education plan > FrontendMasters 6 months > Namecheap domain + SSL > Stripe - fees waived on first $1,000 Cursor Pro 1 Year: > extended limits on Agent > access to all frontier models - GPT, Claude Opus, Gemini > MCPs, skills, and hooks > cloud agents > no card required > takes 2 minutes with your .edu email > no .edu? many countries have their own student verification 📁 Cursor Pro 1 Year ↳ 📁 GitHub Student Pack ↳ combined value: $2,000+ > most students don't know any of this exists bookmark this and share it with every student you know

Mr. Buzzoni

29,750 views • 3 months ago

For years, we hit the same wall everyone else did. You automate a few steps. Then complexity wins. And your best people are back to doing work that should run itself. That's what we set out to fix - not for our customers first, but for ourselves. I'm proud to introduce Akai by Deel. Akai is an interconnected system of agents that learns your workflows, automates every step, and gets smarter with every run - auditably, on any system. Today, 100% of Deel's operations teams, across Finance, Tax, Treasury, Benefits, and HR, run on Akai. The results stopped us in our tracks: → 100,000+ cases handled automatically every month → 8,000+ hours of payment processing - now background tasks → Reconciliation that took 20+ days - now done in minutes → 100% automation in areas we couldn't reach after years of coding → 91,000+ manual hours saved every single month Now, every team is now building agents themselves. No developers. No IT tickets. Just the people who know the work, running it. That's the ceiling we broke. Now we're opening it up. With built-in voice, transactions across any payment method, and the ability to process and analyse any document or dataset - out of the box. Your first agents could be running by tomorrow! Get early access at

For years, we hit the same wall everyone else did. You automate a few steps. Then complexity wins. And your best people are back to doing work that should run itself. That's what we set out to fix - not for our customers first, but for ourselves. I'm proud to introduce Akai by Deel. Akai is an interconnected system of agents that learns your workflows, automates every step, and gets smarter with every run - auditably, on any system. Today, 100% of Deel's operations teams, across Finance, Tax, Treasury, Benefits, and HR, run on Akai. The results stopped us in our tracks: → 100,000+ cases handled automatically every month → 8,000+ hours of payment processing - now background tasks → Reconciliation that took 20+ days - now done in minutes → 100% automation in areas we couldn't reach after years of coding → 91,000+ manual hours saved every single month Now, every team is now building agents themselves. No developers. No IT tickets. Just the people who know the work, running it. That's the ceiling we broke. Now we're opening it up. With built-in voice, transactions across any payment method, and the ability to process and analyse any document or dataset - out of the box. Your first agents could be running by tomorrow! Get early access at

Alex Bouaziz

113,520 views • 4 months ago

SOMEONE BUILT AN OBSIDIAN VAULT THAT RUNS THEIR ENTIRE BUSINESS WHILE THEY SLEEP Every morning at 6AM four things are waiting before they open a single app - project pulse across every active client, content brief with ranked angles for the day, intelligence summary of what matters in their industry and a pre-call brief generated 30 minutes before every meeting with full relationship history and suggested agenda. They log a payment in their daily note and the revenue tracker, client folder and invoice records all update automatically. They drop a research request before bed and the brief is ready when they wake up. The system reads a single file - business identity, active clients, revenue targets, voice - before every operation so every output is business-specific rather than generic AI noise. Total cost: $5/month for a server and $20/month for Claude. Month one the system learns the business. Month six it runs it.

SOMEONE BUILT AN OBSIDIAN VAULT THAT RUNS THEIR ENTIRE BUSINESS WHILE THEY SLEEP Every morning at 6AM four things are waiting before they open a single app - project pulse across every active client, content brief with ranked angles for the day, intelligence summary of what matters in their industry and a pre-call brief generated 30 minutes before every meeting with full relationship history and suggested agenda. They log a payment in their daily note and the revenue tracker, client folder and invoice records all update automatically. They drop a research request before bed and the brief is ready when they wake up. The system reads a single file - business identity, active clients, revenue targets, voice - before every operation so every output is business-specific rather than generic AI noise. Total cost: $5/month for a server and $20/month for Claude. Month one the system learns the business. Month six it runs it.

Noisy

49,080 views • 4 months ago