You have a more dismal view of AI than I. I just think it would be uninteresting times to live in where all we do is socialize and entertain ourselves and others; perhaps also with the help of AI. Killing is irrelevant because no one would know how to kill anyway: merely the desire to kill with the means to execute being AI.

The burden of responsibility for the murder is still borne by the human where the intent to murder resides. AI is a mere tool.

I respect Cursor for their honorable conduct around their privacy setting.

I've consistently refused to allow switching my privacy mode and despite their many iterations, they have never transgressed and kept me stuck on "legacy privacy mode"; their strongest privacy setting, which is not even available to select anymore. It requires that I keep my agents and cursor usage local and can't use their cloud agents (pretty neat cuz you can keep working with them on your phone). But so be it.

I am glad they don't secretly turn it on and instead keep nagging me to change it.

Cached input at $0.003625/M, output at $0.435/M. Aggressive pricing.

For anyone doing the "should I self-host on rented GPUs?" math: at this rate you'd need to push roughly 1B output tokens/day to break even against an 8xH100 fleet on Vast/Lambda (assuming 3-5k tokens/sec aggregate throughput). The vast majority of "I should run my own LLM" use cases don't come close to that volume.

Every API price drop kills another tranche of "self-host the open model" use cases. The implied bet: even if regular pricing ($1.74/M output) is also subsidized, exponential demand growth eventually makes the unit economics work. We'll see.