You’ll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents

This post will focus mainly on Composer 2.5 in Cursor. These problems may not be present in opus-5.5 or gpt-6.1-sol-pro-max-ultra-thinking-fast. But gpt-6.1-luna, for example, has all the problems listed here. I’ve also encountered many of these problems before in gpt-5.5 and opus-4.6. I don’t know whether they’re present in the newer AI models released recently.What I like about Composer 2.5: its usage limits and speed.For comparison, let’s take two $20 subscriptions, one for GPT and one for Cursor. With gpt-6.1-sol, my 5-hour limit runs out after just a few requests. If I ask it to change a couple of lines in a readme file, that uses up 10% of the limit. If I ask it to change something in a large codebase, the entire limit gets used up just reading dozens of files, without writing a single line of code.But GPT also offers a $100 plan with five times the usage limits. And how long would that last me? I work with complex monorepo projects. To make changes to one service, the agent has…

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