From this link in the article:

Cursor uses a combination of our custom models, as well as models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI. [...] Auto automatically routes to different frontier models based on capacity.

Uhm, since I don't use any of this crap... can someone explain what Cursor actually does? I mean... when it's using an "external model", I assume that means they just use OpenAI/Anthropic/etc as a backend service? (Which means even with the current price increase it is indirectly still heavily subsidized...) What service does Cursor even provide then? Do they just prepend user prompts with some unhinged garbage and then send it off to OpenAI etc? Why are people paying for it.. is it only for some fancy editor integration so it sends off/reads back the code as needed?