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Cursor is now free for Students

Jonas Scholz on May 07, 2025

Cursor is now free for students! If you're a student and haven’t tried Cursor yet, now’s the time. They just made their AI coding editor complet...
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BestCodes

Genius plan.

  • Give Cursor to students for free so they don't know how to code without it
  • Wait for them to graduate
  • Since they aren't students anymore, make them pay for Cursor since they can't code without it
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Daniel

That’s a real nice plan

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Werliton Silva

That's a great point!

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Martins Gouveia

😂

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aldrian

Not only that, in the future...
no one will be able to code...

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tjl929

🤣🤣🤣

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Deividas Strole

I don't think students should use Cursor. Cursor will make them think, work and eventually learn less then if they would use conventional editor. It is made more for already experienced devs, because it makes a lot of stupid things that later need to be fixed manually... A couple of weeks a go it by its own totally destroyed my project. After that, I don't use it anymore.

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Ende

Yeah, we all had that thought and that's probably their ultimate goal. Students are now passengers rather than drivers.

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John

Cursor is a tool. Blaming the tool for destroying your project? I recommend learning to take personal responsibility.

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BestCodes

If a tool doesn't do what it says, that is the tool's fault (or the person who made the tool), not yours.
For example, let's say you bought some laundry detergent that claims to make your clothes super clean. You tried it, and it made them super clean but also stripped all the color out of them. You would say that the laundry detergent ruined your clothes.

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John

I get your analogy with the detergent, and you're right that if a product fails to meet its claims, the maker bears some responsibility. But in the software world—especially in dev tools like Cursor—the line is blurrier. Tools like this are powerful but still evolving, and they often expect a certain level of experience and caution from the user.

If you give a chainsaw to someone who’s never used one, and they cut through the wrong thing, is the chainsaw to blame? Maybe partially, if it had a defect. But there's also an expectation that the user knows what they’re doing, tests things, uses version control, and doesn’t blindly trust automation.

Tools can fail, sure. But protecting your project, testing changes, and maintaining backups are basic dev practices. Without those, blaming the tool alone feels like shifting responsibility.

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BestCodes

If you give a chainsaw to someone who’s never used one, and they cut through the wrong thing, is the chainsaw to blame?

The answer here is no, not “maybe partially”. In this case, the person misused the tool. It doesn't matter if the tool had a defect if the person misused the tool without influence from the defect.

@deividas_strole said:

A couple of weeks a go it by its own totally destroyed my project.

That is the tool's fault. You say that “protecting your project, testing changes, and maintaining backups are basic dev practices.” Are you trying to imply that Deividas didn't do these things? Plus, Cursor is marketed to non-developers who don't know about these best practices. All Deividas said was that Cursor destroyed his project. He didn't say “I forgot version control, so now I can't recover it”. He is perfectly justified and correct in blaming Cursor for destroying his project because it did.

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Shifa Ur Rehman

Yeah dumb them down even further.

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Guillemin Giancarmo

Fun fact: got a job proposal that was asking to be an expert in ... Cursor 🤣

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Jonas Scholz

thats hilarious, but I get it! I wouldnt hire someone who doesnt use any LLMs for coding lol

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Guillemin Giancarmo • Edited

Good thing I'm not trying to get into your company then 😅 Any dev should be able to work 100% without LLM. They're an optional tool to help. The best part of that offer was asking to be an expert on a tool released... 2 years ago.

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Jonas Scholz

Of course, if you cant work without LLM support I wouldnt even consider you a dev. But if you completely ignore LLMs (not for learning purposes, but actually writing code daily), you're probably just being ignorant. As always, exceptions apply.

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Guillemin Giancarmo • Edited

Ignorant? That's a fun one. They help, but generally speaking a good dev will writer better code faster than AI will, especially if you consider the time it takes to correct all the issues the LLMs still make when producing code. Though I agree they can help write test code faster, but even then, if you have a good code base, reusing other tests will be more productive and likely deliver better results. Generally speaking, the senior devs I know and exchange with use it as an advanced auto completion tool, to get a couple of lines auto written, but that's about it. So it helps, better than the old auto completion we used to have, but isn't fundamentally required at all. And that's not even mentioning all the edge cases where they're either useless or impossible to use.

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Jonas Scholz

Would you not call someone ignorant who doesnt use auto complete even though it improves productivity?

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Nevo David

Perfect, feels good to see student stuff getting boosted for once - you think tools like this actually help folks stick around coding longer, or just make stuff easier for a bit then drop off?

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Anh Kiệt Trần • Edited

In my country, a boy ,around 12 year old already awarded by making Ai for elderly people, how it could be worth .?academy already a rat race where student must be competitive to get a certificate for applying a job. This competition will impact to student using AI increasing day by day .

Certificate, already a common thing needed for mid paid job on market nowaday, some country, especially India and Asia the acceptant rate for people who have certificates for a job can up to 100%. In my country it already 90% .

Well if the certificate still grow up ,and more and more standardized test come up . well there is no option for student if they want to become middle class .

I think Cusor make a great movement in competitive world .

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Marco

Cursors made functions faster than I did, but were sometimes harder to understand and more complex. I often thought, "I'll fix it later," which often meant never. The code base became unwieldy. After reading "Clean Code," I don't think students should use them.

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ANIM MICHAEL

I need cursor ai to study please can get it

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Yohan

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Jonas Scholz

Agreed

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Haroon Saleem

But Not For Pakistani Students....

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Werliton Silva

Wow! Nice. I've been trying Cursor and I'm enjoying it a lot

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Yagnik Vamja

I can't find option for the INDIA .

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Sasuke

How to access this free version

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misganaw

am from Ethiopia how can get this service ???

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Sritish kumar Gouda

Is this available for Indian students and I can't find my country in there.

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Ramishka Thennakoon

not support for my country😥😥😥