High Battery Drain in Cursor AI: It was the Import Cost Extension
Out of curiosity I’m testing Cursor AI ( and I’m actually enjoying it more that I should ), but I quickly noticed my laptop’s battery draining at an alarming rate – faster than playing Factorio. After investigation, the root cause was clear: the Import Cost VS Code extension was triggering excessive CPU usage through repeated recalculations (for no reason?!).
Edit: No reason might seem excessive. It’s a TypeScript project and I was working on components that got imported everywhere so I might understand why the sizes needed to be updated, but it’s not a BIG project, it still doesn’t make sense to eat all the CPU.
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