Is Cursor too good to be true? Can I stop spending $50 a day on Replit Agent

Agent & Assistant
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Hey folks, quick sanity check. My headi is spinning with Ai Vs Agents Vs SSH … I am a product design lead, not a coder!

I’m building on Replit, but I’m getting tired of Replit Agent costs and the “agent did a bunch of extra stuff I didn’t ask for” problem.

I just connected Cursor to my Repl via SSH, and it feels like I can:

  • Do all coding and refactors in Cursor (with Cursor’s agent/models)

  • Use Replit mainly for hosting, secrets, database add-ons, deploy

  • Avoid using Replit Agent almost entirely

So… is Cursor too good to be true here?

Questions:

  1. What are the real gotchas using Cursor + Replit over SSH (sleeping repls, ports, dev server, file watchers, latency)?

  2. Does this actually reduce Replit AI usage/costs in practice, as long as I stop using Replit Agent?

  3. Any sharp edges with DB migrations, environment variables, or long-running processes when working this way?

  4. What would make you not recommend this setup?

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It’s going really really well! Can’t believe everyone does not work this way :slight_smile:

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Hey, I’d love to get a quick and dirty screen recording of you walking through your setup and day to day workflow! The biggest mysteries for me with this setup in DB/secrets being covered in the back-and-forth sync between Replit (cloud) and Cursor (local). Would really appreciate!!