Cursor now seems completely ineffective?

Bug Report
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Hello, I’ve been quite disappointed with Cursor lately. I was able to build the initial basic features of my iOS app fairly easily, and I also updated my prompt to something very similar to what was recommended by some experienced developers.

However, Cursor now seems completely ineffective.

  • It struggles even with small modifications to my application
  • When there is a compilation issue, Cursor is changing the code over and over, but not fixing the bug, it feels like a dead loop
  • Adding a new flow (like a new page within a flow) will not be easy, sometimes 20 copy/pastes before it gets done, with again always the same error.
  • When asking to add minor changes (like a field), it sometimes completely rewrite the page, and create bugs on parts I did not ask to touch.
  • sometimes it claims to have made changes, but when I check with git diff, there’s no modification at all.

I’m feeling really lost at this point and could really use your help or advice. Has anyone else encountered similar issues, and how did you handle them?

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yes, waste my life , waste my time, coming again and again

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def encountered this. my fix was to start over and go very very slowly with my commands. small bits at a time. I actually found it was faster that way. and I make sure to do the PITA process of pasting in all of the error logs into the dialog chat so Cursor can read Xcode’s feedback. that’s helped me at least get the UI stuff done. Haven’t tried using Cursor to wire up a backend yet.