I completely agree, the ability for me to jump in and edit code, run tests, use plugins manually was incredibly important. I’ve specifically picked Cursor because I can vibe code a simple feature and course correct along the way, or fix it myself if I want. Not being able to use plugins to run the tests, formatting, etc. It’s bad.
A few things I ran into today were trying to add new files, and they straight up were created in a completely different folder. Right clicking on a file to add it to the conversation, that was gone. That feedback where I know that file will be sent is invaluable. I can’t just remember every file by typing @… another super nice thing that seems to be gone was the ability to not type the - and _ in file names. I could @loaduserstest, and it would find load_users_test.sql.
I need to browse and look at files, so I know what to pass to the agent, and that is such a poor experience right now in 3.0. I can look at the file and see if it’s behaving correctly, or.. in 3.0 I almost always have to ask it to check for me. I hate that, what a waste.
Please don’t just turn into codex & claude code and force everyone down that route. Cursors been incredibly powerful because it still leaves that code front-and-center with a very fast and immediate feedback loop. Pushing that exclusively through a chat window is very frustrating, and is much slower.