Recent version upgrades of Cursor have yielded a significantly degraded experience for me due to the recent changes in context retrieval. Cursor no longer retrieves enough context to make adequately informed edits. I often find it not useful for tasks that used to be routine.
This seems to have coincided with the removal of the @codebase feature. It seems like the consensus is that this was a business decision to cut token costs, which seems plausible and very disappointing. I would hate to have to switch to another IDE again, but Cursor in its current state is not useful to me any more. I’m finding myself ignoring AI and coding everything myself like back in the stone age (2021).
Before, when using @codebase I think it’s fair to argue it retrieved too much context. Reducing that to a reasonable level makes sense, but now I am seeing agent only retrieving maybe 2-5 files per query which is nowhere near enough and it shows.
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To me, it’s totally unusable right now. I have to say “get the full project context” multiple times, which is a huge overhead compared to just having a simple shortcut click. But that’s not even the worst part — the worst is that it doesn’t always work! I’m basically stuck vibe coding now, which I honestly hate because it doesn’t work for my usecase!
I’ve been using Cursor instead of my JetBrains IDEs for a project over the past months — a project that would’ve taken me 8-9 months with a standard IDE or Copilot but with Cursor took just 3!
Anyway, at this point, I just can’t do anything… Some people on Reddit are suggesting Windsurf, but I really don’t want to pay for two tools. I still believe you’ll fix this!
Please, add the full context shortcut back ASAP — and not just for Ask mode, but also for Manual mode, since that’s the one I use the most!
Also, I really miss the old Edit mode where I could both ask questions and manually edit code without having to switch settings. That flexibility was awesome.
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