reasoning model
A model trained to spend extra computation thinking before it answers. Better on hard problems, slower and more expensive on easy ones.
Where it comes up
PRD to PR
“already connected. You know scan it basically and now I'm like okay I think I understand what the requirements are asking. I'm going to switch it to plan mode and I'm actually going to switch to one of these high reasoning models. So I'm go…”
Cursor for Data Science
“just because 5.3 is really smart, really fast, and a lot less expensive. Um, but I also would highly recommend folks trying out, you know, Cloud 46 Sonnet, which came out yesterday. Gemini 31 Pro just came out, I think like maybe an hour ag…”
Cursor for Sales Engineers
“can debug itself. It can interact very effectively and you can see see these changes running uh in real time. Uh, another update is the release of our own uh, LLM. So, Composer 1 is a purpose-built code generation model. Uh, very very effec…”
Refactoring Legacy Codebases
“Um I think these higher reasoning models are going to give you a much better results than like the medium reasoning models. And when you compare the pricing of Composer-2.5 versus something like um Gemini or uh Gemini Flash, which is one of…”
Cursor 101
“use for this particular task. And for planning and when you're sort of uh thinking about reasoning, you want to choose like a high reasoning model, not one that's optimized for coding, but one that's optimized for for thinking. And uh there…”
Cursor for Java Developers
“And how I like to think about model selection is I normally group them into two groups. One is a async and high reasoning group. Um what that means is they're very highly intelligent models. They have strong reasoning efforts and they're te…”
Cursor 101
“Okay, so I'm just switching the model to a state-of-the-art reasoning model. And what this means is that these models are more trained for general knowledge work. They spend more time thinking and reasoning about what they're being asked to…”
Cursor for Mobile Developers
“You could wrap it in like a CLI tool locally and then call the CLI itself, but what I'd actually recommend on the expense side is, you know, whenever you're using uh heavy MCP tool calling for, you know, a task or a prompt, uh don't don't u…”
Cursor Rules, Commands, Hooks, and Skills
“there are thinking models, also known as reasoning models, and then we also have max mode. Um so standard models are going to be the models in the list uh in that menu picture picker that don't have a brain next to them. Um, those are going…”
How Cursor uses Cursor
“Once you get your plan effectively handled, then we get into the execution mode where we have to make a decision if we want to continue locally or if we want to potentially hand this off to a cloud agent. And depending on what task you're w…”