I’m having issues with Cursor responsiveness, agent quality, and wasted prompts.
I’ve been using Cursor Pro for a while now, but its performance in recent weeks has become really frustrating last few weeks.
No response after prompting:
Cursor often gets stuck on “Generating…” and never finishes. I’ve had to cancel and retry multiple times, but even then, the prompt may fail again. This happens far too frequently.
Agent doesn’t apply changes:
About 80% of the time, the agent just describes what it wants to change instead of actually modifying the code. I then have to issue a second prompt just to ask it to apply what it already suggested. This is both inefficient and a waste of tokens/prompts.
Agent-generated code has bugs:
When I run into issues with code that the agent itself just generated, it often blames the bug on “my existing code” instead of acknowledging its own mistake. Again, this leads to another prompt just to fix what it broke.
Fixing one issue introduces another:
After fixing bug A, bug B appears. Then asking it to fix B sometimes reverts the code back to a buggy version from A. It creates a frustrating loop of back-and-forths, wasting time and prompts.
I hope these issues are being prioritized
Please let me know if there’s any upcoming fix or workaround.
Seeing the same issues in terms of performance. Have also started a thread on this. Potentially victims of their own success. I can’t tell you how much I love this product, but it has to remain effective. My fix for response times is to stay on Auto, but of course, with no thinking, the results are not going to be anywhere near as good.
Fingers crossed the dev team find a lot more bandwidth for us to play with.
It’s still subject to context saturation though I guess, so unless you create a persistent source for info like that, it’s eventually going to forget that part of the convo, as it’s not going to poll the project structure on every prompt. I’ve started using project templates that try to avert the issues of saturation, if that’s of any use to you?
At this point jump ship to the surfers and never look back again. However, all these IDEs will converge at one point offering almost identical (if not exactly the same) features. It’s a matter of time, so if you need results NOW try the alternatives, otherwise, wait for Cursor to ship major improvements soon.
It’s more than inefficient. All the precious details from the thinking process are gone from the context, when the actual implementation of the planned idea is delayed until next prompt.
In the span of the last 2 days, Cursor has become entirely useless. Any agent interaction results in the program completely freezing and it requires a force quit.
Also, It totally changed on a dime regarding it’s chat code application. Now It’s just suggesting what to do instead of showing you acceptable diffs.
This is remarkable because all this came out of nowhere.
Oh my god, tell me about it. I have the exact same issues. It’s so frustrating that I’m now using another IDE. I really love Cursor, and I want them to be good, but it’s unusable—it is unusable at this point. Unfortunately.
I’m experiencing the same issue with v0.5. It has become unusable. A simple file edit has been “generating” for over 5 minutes, with no updates in the context window. The status says “Saving…: Writing into file” for a workspace that’s available locally on disk.
It literally must be this companies business model, because everything works great for a little while.. Pricing models change and go up. Performance deteriorates until its practically useless!! Then the model just repeats!!
