I have a bug that was a complex interaction between backend and front end over websockets. The day before I was banging my head against the wall with o3 pro and grok heavy, gpt5 solved it first try.
I think its also true that most people arent pushing the limits on the models, and dont even really know how to correctly push the limits. Which is also why openai is not focussed on the best models
Another thing I’ll add though, is o3 pro is better through the api than the chat website. They clearly constrain it unless you’re paying the absurd api cost
I actually think cursor alone is not that good
If I send about 60k tokens, the model can't see the question (at the bottom of the text). I need to reduce it to 50k.
If I send two prompts with 40k tokens, the model can't see the beginning of the first prompt.
This seems quite unethical given they advertise 128k context, and I doubt it's an accident (since it runs in the direction of cost savings).
Could you provide some examples, please? I find this really exciting. I’ve never yet encountered an AI with good literary writing style.
And poetry is really hard, even for humans.
Plus their creative output in literary quality is dreary, dull, and dire. That's why I was so curious for the OP to share examples.
I've also heard hearsay that R1 is quite clever in Chinese, too.
I'll agree that it's superhuman and state-of-the-art at certain tasks: Formal logic, data analysis, and basically short analytical tasks in general. It's better than any version of Grok or Gemini.
When it comes to writing prose, and generally functioning as a writing bot, it's a poor model, obviously and transparently worse than Kimi K2 and Deepseek R1. (It never ceases to amaze me that the best English prose stylists are the Chinese models. It's not just that they don't write in GPT's famous "AI style," it's to the point where Kimi is actually on par with most published poets.)