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Cursor lets you use various models and currently this is all set here to auto.

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So right here the agent you're going to see this auto is pretty hidden here.

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But if you click on this you're going to see this list here.

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So auto simply means auto select meaning that cursor is going to select the best model for you.

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Which actually for most people who don't care about the underlying model, that's totally fine.

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However, there are differences between those models.

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If you know exactly what you want, then maybe you should also select the model that you want to have

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there.

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Currently, at the time of this recording, cloud 3.7 sonnet, but also Gemini 2.5 Pro are very good

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models.

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The list will change.

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So you're going to see here model is disappearing from the list, new models appearing and so on.

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There's one more important thing.

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And this is the thinking option here.

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So we're going to see here thinking is disabled and thinking refers to reasoning models.

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So models who spend a bit more time thinking about the problem, trying out different things in the

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background before coming up with a solution.

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Now this is super important because on one hand, thinking models do provide better results.

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At the same time, a thinking model takes more time.

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So if you are a bit impatient, then probably a thinking model is not such a good idea, especially

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if you just want to quickly prototype something.

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However, if you're noticing that you are working on a more complex problem, and the model that you

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have selected is not providing the kind of results that you expect, do consider going for a thinking

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model.

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I'm going to disable it for now and keep this auto select.

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I'm going to see about this later.