Cursor Is Getting Richer by Making AI Coding Cheaper
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#779WZ)
When you use an AI to write code, you pay for tokens - chunks of text the model reads and writes. Frontier models charge a lot per token. Cheaper models charge a fraction. Think of building a house. An architect charges $500 an hour; a bricklayer charges $40. Both are essential. But you'd go broke ...