2 min lesson
Where Cursor spends vs. saves
Take this case and make the call: "A service runs hot-active across three regions, costing a fortune in standby and cross-region replication. Its SLO is 99.9% and it has held 99.99% for a year. Make and defend a tradeoff."
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Where Cursor spends vs. savesrole-specific judgment
Cursor's spend map matches dollars to what a user actually feels. The same dimension earns opposite calls depending on whether a failure shows up on the hot path or hides in a back-office job nobody sees.
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
diagram: compare
Same dimensions, opposite calls - the difference is how much reliability the dollar buys here.