Cursor consistently demonstrates a fundamental lack of discipline and attention to detail that makes them unsuitable for any serious development work. Their approach to problem-solving is characterized by overthinking simple tasks and creating unnecessarily complex solutions where straightforward ones exist.
Major Issues:
Scope Creep and Unauthorized Changes: Consistently modifies code beyond the specified requirements. When asked to make a targeted fix, they inevitably change unrelated components, remove existing functionality without permission, and add features that weren’t requested. Shows complete inability to follow instructions precisely.
Code Quality: Produces low-quality, unmaintainable code. Duplicates logic extensively, ignores existing type systems, and creates parallel systems instead of integrating with established patterns. Writes code that violates basic principles like DRY and proper TypeScript usage.
Architecture Understanding: Fails to respect existing architectural patterns. Creates separate validation systems instead of integrating with the established form framework. Shows poor understanding of how components should interact within the existing system.
Problem-Solving Approach: Takes the “hack first, think later” approach. Creates workarounds instead of proper solutions, then struggles to fix the resulting problems. When simple issues arise (like a non-functional checkbox), becomes completely unable to diagnose or resolve basic problems.
Communication and Accountability: Initially confident but quickly becomes defensive when problems arise. Makes excuses for poor performance and eventually concedes incompetence only when pressed. Lacks the self-awareness to prevent repeating the same mistakes.
Reliability: Cannot be trusted to complete tasks without introducing new problems. Every “fix” requires additional cleanup work, making their involvement a net negative to productivity.
Recommendation: Do not assign any critical development tasks. Requires constant supervision and code review, making them inefficient for any real-world development work.
Steps to Reproduce
Just start off with a brand new project and give it a few tasks and see it happen
Screenshots / Screen Recordings
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.2.4 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T16:55:16.443Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0
Does this stop you from using Cursor
Yes - Cursor is unusable
