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THE RECEIPT TRAIL: WHAT THEY CHARGE VS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY PAY

DEV Community·Cafeína Design·22 days ago
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Cursor and Windsurf are not AI coding tools. They're slot machines wrapped in a dark theme. Both exploits Claude Opus 4.7's broken tokenizer—which silently inflates your token count by 32–45%—to drain your credit card. Cursor's "Max Mode" burns $20–30/day after the bait-and-switch from "unlimited" plans. Windsurf's quota system incinerates 50% of your weekly allowance in a single session, then abandoned its users when Google bought the founders for $2.4B. Both are backed by the same VCs, use the same predatory playbook, and leave you holding a bill for code that doesn't even compile. Here's the forensic evidence. THE RECEIPT TRAIL: WHAT THEY CHARGE VS WHAT YOU ACTUALLY PAY Here's the scam in numbers. Cursor advertises $20/month. Windsurf advertises $20/month.…

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