But if you try some penny-saving cheap model like Sonnet [..bad things..]. [Better] pay through the nose for Opus.

After blowing $800 of my bootstrap startup funds for Cursor with Opus for myself in a very productive January I figured I had to try to change things up... so this month I'm jumping between Claude Code and Cursor, sometimes writing the plans and having the conversation in Cursor and dump the implementation plan into Claude.

Opus in Cursor is just so much more responsive and easy to talk to, compared to Opus in Claude.

Cursor has this "Auto" mode which feels like it has very liberal limits (amortized cost I guess) that I'm also trying to use more, but -- I don't really like to flip a coin and if it lands up head then waste half hour discovering the LLM made a mess the LLM and try again forcing the model.

Perhaps in March I'll bite the bullet and take this authors advice.