When I am asking Cursor a question, it normally says “I need to respond in a concise manner” when it shows its thought process. If I ask it to be thorough, it says that the “system” is telling it to be concise while the “user” is telling it to be thorough, so it will prioritize being thorough for the user.
Has anyone had a similar experience and wanted it to be thorough? I was surprised that it seems to have some default instructions, I was curious to see what they are and know if there is a way to change them. I guess you can change the project’s Cursor rules so it doesn’t do this or is there a better way?
Hey, do you use any rules in your project? It might be specified in the rules. Please check if it’s in the .cursorrules or project rules file in the .cursor/rules folder, or in user rules, in the Cursor settings under Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + J, in the Rules & Memories tab.
Thanks for the reply! I don’t, which is why I thought it was strange. I have actually noticed that in Cursor, the GPT models tend to be much more curt than say, ChatGPT. I am not sure I have experienced this with Claude so I will have to double check. But as, I mentioned, with no rules, I have seen GPT-5 think out loud “I need to be concise” and when I ask it to not be concise it thinks out loud that is has “contradictory” instructions, so that is why I am inclined to believe that Cursor somehow asks the models to be concise by default.