AI Coding Tool Silently Switches Default Models And Pushes Cloud Upsells
A developer using Cursor reports the tool increasingly nudges users toward its own cloud agent and Grok models through frequent prompts and UI changes, including a silent default-model switch that wasted ten minutes of token spend on a task another model solved in thirty seconds. The friction pushed the user to migrate to an alternative stack (Pi plus OpenRouter) for more predictable model control.
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