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@Rocket@shitposter.world I don't like to say open source because I am part of the free software movement.

The free software movement is not about money, it is about freedom.

The reason why you shouldn't become dependent SaaSS is not because it costs money, but because of power dynamics.

At any point Cursor can go away, change their terms of service, change their features, etc. It might not work the way it works today and it could change without notice and without your permission.

Also worth mentioning is that they can spy on every request the program makes to their server.

I'm not an AI expert and I don't know too much about the performance of the various available LLMs at the moment, but I do know that indeed most of them struggle with large context sizes (such as thousands of lines of codes).

I also know in part that Cursor fixes this by indexing your project in a way that the LLM can easily understand it with a very minimum context or token size.

There's various free software scripts that do similar stuff, and they will only become better over time. It usually doesn't take very long for free software to catch up with stuff like this, even though it is always little bit behind the curve.