Hi everyone,
I’ve been a Cursor user since the very beginning. As an engineer, this tool was a game-changer for me, boosting my productivity significantly on complex projects. I rely on advanced prompting with strict constraints and structured contexts in Composer 2. Everything was working perfectly until the most recent updates.
I am writing this because I’ve noticed a major regression that is now hindering my work. This isn’t a minor tweak; it feels like the core logic has collapsed.
Observed issues:
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Context Loss: The tool seems unable to maintain the “n-1” message context. It focuses almost entirely on the latest prompt and loses the thread of the conversation immediately, even when I am well under my quota limits (under 15%).
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Methodological Shift: Instead of direct code edits (which worked flawlessly before), Composer 2 has started generating unnecessary intermediary scripts to modify the programs. This adds useless complexity and introduces constant errors.
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Execution Failure: There is a clear disconnect between instructions and output. The AI tends to digress or talk about the task instead of simply executing it, even with very precise framing. I ask for A, it does B.
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Over-engineered Reasoning: Even for trivial tasks like changing a single word or fixing a typo, Composer 2 now triggers an exhaustive, doctoral-level “Chain of Thought” that lasts for minutes. It builds massive action plans for simple edits that should be instantaneous, wasting both time and resources.
My question to the team is simple:
You had a best-in-class “Chain of Thought” and context management system. What has changed in the recent pipeline or model integration to cause such a drop in reliability? I am now spending more time debugging the AI’s logic than I would coding manually.
As a professional user, I’m looking for technical clarity on this. We rely on Cursor for high-level engineering, and we need the tool to meet the standards of the service we subscribed to.
Looking forward to a serious explanation.