I may be in the minority here, but I think 2.0 is a massive step backwards. Cursor previously felt like I was in charge of my code, but with this really neat assistant I could call upon for help when I needed to get tedious things done, or autocomplete to solve some algorithm or code I’d typically snippet or stackoverflow copy & paste.
2.0 is steering me away from my code. It puts the agent itself front and center, and doesn’t even do a solid job of that. When I work on my projects, I want them to feel like my projects. I need to feel a sense of connection to my code. Don’t get me wrong, I love prototyping out an app in 15 minutes just as much as the next person, but when the AI becomes the focus, I lose my sense of creation. I lose my sense of ownership.
Take the product in the direction you think is best (I think having the tab for split agent vs IDE is a good start), but it feels like the focus is less on helping me as a developer, and more about making ai do more things. It’s a subtle difference, but I feel it in this version change, and I don’t care for it.
Have you considered continuing to use the IDE view? Many Cursor users prefer and want to use that, and you don’t need to shift to the agent-focused layout.
Do you feel like the agent became too prominent even in that view?
I agree. I am not sure why the update is automatically setting people on the Agents view. This is causing a ton of confusing and lots of bad first impressions with this update. The Agents view is very agent centric, while the Editor view is still the classic IDE view.
I totally get where you’re coming from about feeling disconnected from your code. That sense of ownership is crucial.
Just wanted to mention — as andrewh and dimitricheckin pointed out, you can switch to the Editor view (top bar or settings) to get back to the classic IDE experience. The Agents view is there as an option, but you don’t have to use it.
I jumped straight into 2.0 two weeks ago (coming fresh, no legacy workflow), and I’ve found the Editor view gives me that same sense of control you’re describing. The agent is there when I need it, but my code stays front and center.
That said, I hear your feedback about the default view steering toward Agents. That could definitely be clearer for existing users during the transition.
Hope the Editor view helps restore that connection to your code!
Funny how people think different.
For me it’s quite the opposite. Using the polished editor view i feel it’s very clean and exactly the way i wanted it to be.
I’m on the side of putting the AI in the front, and I still think that 2.0 is a step in the wrong direction: full of bugs (minor and major ones), features that one have gotten used to already keep changing in every single upgrade (like background -now “cloud”- agents).
I wish there were a stable version with not so many drastic changes, and one more edgy for people to try out the new stuff.
I’m currently looking for the way to downgrade my Cursor version.
2.0 is A BIG NO, Bad agents, don’t support attached elements in the input field as it was in the editor, the terminal, the Active Tabs is not in the input field
You can use both or one if you prefer.
I love coding as well and having the code next to me, so I am using both ways. I think this will be a problem is cursor delete the editor option, but this will not happen.
I hear the frustration. For what it’s worth, I’ve been building with 2.0 (Editor view) for two weeks and shipping real features—though not without drama!
Earlier today: complete markdown disaster—files corrupted twice, emoji encoding nightmare, AI lost context mid-session. We recovered, documented the whole mess, and just posted: Markdown Conversion Hell: A Cautionary Tale
Full transparency on what went wrong, how we fixed it, and lessons learned. Maybe it’ll give folks hope (or at least a laugh) that 2.0 can work—even through chaos!
Not dismissing the bugs—just sharing it IS possible to build real projects with it.
Cursor really seems indifferent to several small but important updates that real end-users care about.
Instead, it feels like the priority is always on flashy features that sound impressive when pitching to investors, rather than genuinely useful improvements.
And cost efficiency is more important than ever. Even after launching their own model, cost efficiency is still seriously lacking.
am really thankful you let us have the CHOICE between the two side by side
was missing that back then when you removed the old Composer (it still worked better than todays agent for me)
so Thanks again Andrewh, currently using the new Agent vs IDE view like 40/60
the CTRL E switch between editor and Agent view is dope and works flawleslly (even when 8 cursor windows are open)
Sadly miss the “current running agents” view where i can swap between them in the editor, its there in the Agent window so maybe shouldnt be too hard to bring it back?
@andrewh I like the Agent view, I just wish I could pick where the agent panel goes instead of forcing the Agent to be on the left, it just makes it harder for me to use the primary side bar when it’s on the right with my current setup. I’d like the agents panel to be on the right like the chat in IDE view. Is there a way to do it?
Edit: I forgot to mention I tried the vscode setting to put the primary sidebar on the left, but the Agents mode doesn’t care about that setting.
