Cursor 2.0 is HUGE!

Nov 05, 2025

After a relatively quiet week before, last week we have a BOMB from the Cursor team. More on that, and other news, below.

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This week I’m out of office, family vacation in Gran Canaria, so didn’t shoot videos.

Official Cursor 2.0 Announcement blog: New Coding Model and Agent Interface
Official Tweet with short videos of new features: “Introducing Cursor 2.0. Our first coding model and the best way to code with agents.”
A popular YouTuber GosuCoder has published a video: Cursor 2.0 might have me coming back to Cursor
Theo also agrees on this, in his video: Cursor just changed forever
Another new feature: Cursor BROWSER is here
Tweet by Eric: “With cursor 2.0, you can now share commands and rules with links! here are 5 commands from the cursor team”.
Quick video: 3 simple steps to make Cursor AI overpowered (browser mode).
That said, with all those new goodies, the good old topic about Cursor pricing is still active, people are still unhappy. But, to be fair, all IDEs and LLMs raise prices or add limitations, in recent months.

GPT-5 has some degradation issues.

GosuCoder tweeted: “I’ve moved back to primarily using Claude Code. GPT5-codex just doesn’t feel the same.”
Dax is summarizing: “now everyone is saying codex sucks and they’re going back to claude code“.
As a result, Tibo from OpenAI shared the report of what they found over seven days. Ian tweeted the “more readable summary” of that report (in short, no single root cause found).

Big announcement from GitHub conference: Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work
Tweet from Fili: Cursor pro tip - when context hits ~50%, type /summarize command
This week, two U.S. coding assistants—Cursor and Windsurf—were caught running on Chinese foundation models.
Wanna get a near-pixel-perfect design with AI? Watch this video: The Design Mode for Claude Code
The LLM performance also depends on the IDE and the workflow. 0xWulf tweets: “Is it just me, or does Sonnet 4.5 inside droid FactoryAI outperform Claude Code for most tasks?”
A well-known YouTuber Pat Walls is downgrading his $200/mo Claude Code plan to $20. Now, his current AI coding setup is: Cursor + CC + Codex = $60/month. Actually, the same setup that I’m using!
Reddit post that went viral: Claude Code is a Beast – Tips from 6 Months of Hardcore Use - also the author published a follow-up Claude Code is a Beast Examples Repo