Chat not working at all

Bug Report
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Cursor seems extremely unstable since the last release. As of this morning, whenever I use chat, pressing enter does absolutely nothing. The LLM selected doesn’t get the request, the activity indicator below the chat never shows up, etc. I clearly have connectivity and the LLM’s are operational, so this must be on Cursor’s side.

I’m seriously considering moving to another solution per the last build they released without testing anything…

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This is definitely the same issue many others have reported relating to images causing chat to completely fail. You have to delete all images from a chat instance that becomes unresponsive.

So for the record, here are the major issues that need to be resolved per the last update:

  • Files are randomly deleted by cursor without any justification or notice when you reject changes to a file (it even deletes files that aren’t being worked on actively)
  • Chat completely stops working if you happen to attach an image (which is a feature that should probably be disabled if it doesn’t work or hasn’t been tested)
  • Cursor applies changes to the completely wrong file very frequently. Even if you don’t even have the file open and you try to apply changes to a new file, it will open the last file you were working on and apply changes there… that makes sense
  • There are countless other smaller issues that I don’t have time to list here…

It definitely seems like this software should be in beta (or alpha) and not charging customers for anything until they can get their software working.

Do Cursor admins or moderators ever respond to any issues or are we all just pleading to the wall?

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I have been saying it , i dont believe this product is production ready. Probably in alpha state, but many over zealous fanboys reported my comment for speakling the cold hard truth.

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totally hear you. we’ve fixed a ton of issues in the release that goes out in ~1 week. should hopefully put an end to some of these problems

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I had a same problem. Removing images from a chat (from one of the previous messages) helped.

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OMG, this worked! You’re my hero, I am relieved to not have to re-provide all the context from this chat :sweat_smile:

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Could you share examples of:

  1. File deletion problem
  2. Cursor applying change to the wrong file?

Would love to fix these ASAP!

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I’m not sure how to share examples of this since that would require screen recording. I can provide more insight into what’s happening though.

Cursor Applying Change to the Wrong File:
While I’m not familiar with VS Code’s API or extension framework, I can clearly see that there’s an association to a file that is made when you “apply” code from chat which essentially makes a reference to the file it thinks it’s supposed to be “working on”. When you reject the code (or in some cases, just close the chat or file), the reference persists. When you then ask for new revisions (in a new chat or same chat) it wants to apply the changes to the persistent association with the previous file.

File Deletion Problem
The file deletion issue is pretty well documented throughout the forum since it seems most people are experiencing that.

That’s the best I can do, but happy to elaborate further if you have specific questions.

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Message me @amanrs and I’ll try to help. I’m trying to stick with you guys as best I can, but it’s tough with all these critical bugs in production software that I’m paying a monthly fee for…