Cursor, Antigravity, Windsurf and other IDEs revenue model is tokens. More back and forth, more retries equals more money for them. There’s zero business pressure to make the AI nail it on the first try. I’ve used Claude directly and through these platforms. The direct experience is super different. These wrappers add their own system prompts, manage context their way, inject instructions you never asked for. All of that eats into the model’s ability to focus on your actual problem and leads to more hallucinations and off context responses. I build production software so I was looking for ways to not pay the Claude subscription. I thought I’d benefit from Antigravity’s free plan but ended up wasting more credits and going back and forth with the model than I ever do working directly. Bought the Claude Pro subscription directly after that headache. You want the AI to get it right on the first try, but they make more money when it doesn’t. Whether you’re vibe coding or an actual software engineer, you’ll get better output using models directly. submitted by /u/Ejboustany
Originally posted by u/Ejboustany on r/ArtificialInteligence
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