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Cursor users discuss Bugbot costs and PR review effectiveness

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A user on Reddit's r/cursor subreddit is seeking advice on managing the costs and improving the effectiveness of Bugbot, an AI tool used for reviewing GitHub pull requests. The user reported that Bugbot consumed nearly $300 in two weeks for two engineering teams and two repositories, attributing the high cost to default settings and a lack of specific rules. They are looking for practical experiences and lessons learned regarding repository-specific rules, cost control, and the potential for building custom PR review agents. AI

IMPACT Users are seeking strategies to optimize AI tool usage and costs for code review processes.

RANK_REASON User discussion about a specific AI-powered tool's cost and configuration.

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Cursor users discuss Bugbot costs and PR review effectiveness

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  1. r/cursor TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/niknak02 ·

    Bugbot used almost $300 in 14 days - how do you control costs and improve PR reviews?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Last month, Bugbot consumed almost $300 in just 14 days reviewing GitHub PRs across two engineering teams (20 engineers) and two repositories.</p> <p>We were using the default Bugbot settings and didn't have any repository-specific rules or custo…

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