I am seeing the same thing. People are even sending slack messages using cursor or claudecode. You post a PR or ask a question, I get a long response that was not written by a human. Uncanny valley it is.
I bought one from ebay after reading this article. is the op the author or this article? I reached out to him on X.com for source code. so far no response.
Yeah it did the same in my case too. it did all the work in the <think> tokens. but did not spit out the actual answer. I was not even close to 100K tokens
dont do this. it will ask you a bunch of questions and you have to enter your email address and name to get the results. (which subscribes to their newsletter)
I am really sorry this happened. Depending on your financial situation, you can take a break and prepare for the interviews. it is really hard to work at a place where you are not treated well.