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It catches so many subtle bugs.", "excerpt": "https://cursor.com/bugbot I didn't see this mentioned, but we've been running bugbot for a while now and it's very good. It catches so many subtle bugs.", "context": "Team has run it for a while", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Get an AI code review in 10 seconds"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 774513760, "item_id": 48407110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407110", "by": "causal", "date": "2026-06-04", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I recently moved off Cursor's BugBot because it's no longer a flat $40", "excerpt": "I recently moved off Cursor's BugBot because it's no longer a flat $40, and I feel a little lost trying to find a viable alternative because there are so many and the pricing kind of sucks for all of them. 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It catches so many subtle bugs.", "excerpt": "https://cursor.com/bugbot I didn't see this mentioned, but we've been running bugbot for a while now and it's very good. It catches so many subtle bugs.", "context": "Team has run it for a while", "use_case": "AI code review", "switched_from": "", "story": "Get an AI code review in 10 seconds"}, {"id": 739952802, "item_id": 46247050, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247050", "by": "sanketsaurav", "date": "2025-12-12", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Cursor Bugbot: $40/mo", "excerpt": "> $8/100k tokens strikes me as potentially a TON It's $8/100K lines of code. Since we're using a mix of models across our main agent and sub-agents, this normalizes our cost. > I could easily see hitting 10k+ LOC on routine tickets if this is being run on each checkpoint. I have some tickets that require moving some files around, am I being charged on LOC for those files? Deleted files? Newly created test files that ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Autofix Bot \u2013 Hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent"}]}