What are you doing that costs that much?
I refactored a whole code base in cursor for < $100 (> 200k lines of code).
I don't use completions though. Is that where the costs add up?
You can configure it so that you use your API keys, which means you just pay cost but o3 is expensive
How do you own Cursor for 3 years, when even ChatGPT is not that old? The earliest Cursor submission to HN was on October 15, 2023 --- not even 2 years old [0].
I definitely wouldn't be surprised if a small startup was engaging in their own posts, something I do find shameful. But that's quite a far shot from a wildly successful startup with 100M ARR engaging in some kind of scheme where accounts with active history are making automated comments. Just seems not only unnecessary but also unlikely given the risk and effort involved.
I think it's much more likely that out of the 300k users or whatever they have, a lot of them are on hackernews and have good things to say about the product and a 1.0 is a significant event.
And no I'm not a bot but feel as you wish.