Auto is absolutely useless

Discussions
21

Auto uses sonnet.

22

agree

23

I agreeā€¦uselessšŸ˜’

24

Auto mode is what drove me away from Cursor, because after I ran out of my ā€œcreditsā€ for the month, I was stuck for what to do with the other 27 days before the Pro plan reset.

1 Like
25

After my credits ended while using Claude 4, I reverted to Auto mode and I can also confirm that it is not very useful.

26

Hey, thanks for the report. Could you clarify if the same thing happens in a new chat? Also, could you share the request ID? First, youā€™ll need to disable privacy mode.

27

I just canceled my subscription. Auto is basically useless. I tried to add a $10 limit and it doesnt even last a few days. I canā€™t see paying $200 a month to make cursor useful so looking for alternatives.

At the moment Iā€™m just going back to T3 chat and copying code in before asking questions, and copying results out.

28

I like it and use it many times. sometimes indeed it looses its marbles, but itā€™s less frequent now

1 Like
29

going from Cursor back to copying and pasting code into a chat windowā€¦ bruh.
How is at all feasible once you start needing the chat to be aware of multiple files. Itā€™s such a headache. Have you tried Trae at least if you really cant afford Cursor or if Cursor is just bad value for you?

30

If youā€™re finding auto to be useless, your task or codebase is too unstructured or your agent is too undirected in the task you gave it.

31

Iā€™m guessing itā€™s just a bad value for me. I have a large structured, documented code base Iā€™m working on and itā€™s harder topics. Iā€™m writing a 2d game engine. Auto just falls apart on anything even remotely complex.

Iā€™ll look at other editor, but I tried Cursor from using chat with copy/paste. I can go back to it easy enough. I mean the integrated IDE was awesome and very useful, but not at the cost it would be to me full time. Itā€™s a side project not a full time job for me and I canā€™t see pay $60 a month for the nice-to-haves. $20-$30 sure, but thats it and that doesnt last Ā½ a month.

I can get auto to do things reliably, but only very simple tasks, anything remotely complex and it dies hard.

32

I understand, especially for people who are using Cursor for a side project/hobby. There are others who are not, and the price is hardly the concern compared to the quality of the product.

33

Iā€™ve never had much of a problem with auto mode until half an hour ago. cursor if you switched to a new model. first of all, thanks for another blackbox experience of not telling us you just add fuel to the fireā€¦ and also: that model is an absolute and utter moronā€¦

34

If I understand correctly, Auto could be switching to different models all the time. So it may suddenly start behaving differently (for better or worse).

35

I would also like to comment that Iā€™ve never had a problem with auto before but the last day or two itā€™s been incredibly stupid. After every detailed prompt that would have usually generated decent enough code I now get beginner-level garbage like code duplication everywhere.

36

I agree with you auto is terrible and slow :((

37

ding ding ding. happening again. auto mode turned into a lobotomite. ā– ā– ā– ā– , we should create a sms service, like anthropic that messages us which models just turned into a braindead ā– ā– ā– ā– ā€¦