Deprecation Request - Changing default to "Auto"

[samhaaf]

If I am having a terrible time with Cursor, 9/10 times it’s because the agent switched from my current model selection, i.e. gemini-2.5-pro-03-25 to Auto.

Auto, to be completely frank, is garbage at the level of intensity I push in a given thread. I lose at least tens of minutes and ge irritated because Cursor is changing my default agent decision.

Please undo this feature. It’s not a good one.

[samhaaf]

Linking to other threads to build my case.

Remove AUTO / make it a preference (this feels like a money grab)

What is really the purpose of that? Everyone is using the top models, anyway

Stop it flipping on AUTO i never choose this setting

It keeps flipping back to Auto, and it’s making even more mistakes. Stop making the agent flip to Auto—this is a real pain. If I don’t notice you forcing the flip, suddenly everything gets even worse. This is really bad practice to force this on users. If I wanted Auto, I would choose Auto. I do not want you forcing Auto on me just because you think I’m too dumb to choose it. I want it to remember which model I’m using. [CleanShot 2025-04-07 at 15.28.48]

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Remove the behavior where it switches to auto. PLEASE. I am begging you. Do the right thing.

[samhaaf]

This is what happens:

• I curate a big, perfect thread with Gemini over the course of days.
• I go to sleep
• I come back to pick up where I left off, and the model has switched to “Auto”.
• I don’t notice, so I use Auto for maybe an hour. It pollutes my thread with GARBAGE code, false assumptions, and arguments.
• I notice that it switched to Auto at some point. I can’t go back at this point because I’ve already changed too many lines of code.
• The REST of the thread is GARBAGE because the thread is polluted.
• My day is filled with high cortisol levels.

This is objectively a bad decision. If I have to go through this again I’m switching to Cline and that’s going to ■■■■ hard. But I don’t need cursor. I need an agent that uses Gemini 2.5 Pro. And I’ll pay for it. I’m paying for you to call that api for me. Don’t get greedy.

[samhaaf]

If you are a bystander to this thread, please upvote for me. I need help getting visibility.

[samhaaf]

Tried emailing cursor and their AI Assistant responded to my email with incorrect answers.

[samhaaf]

There is almost a workaround by creating a custom agent mode, but it doesn’t work, unfortunately.

1. Create custom mode
   

   

2. Name it, e.g. Agent+ and enable all tools
   

   

3. Set default model (broken)
   

   

Clicking anywhere on the page for step 3 is unresponsive. So this is not a valid solution, right now.

[liquefy]

Hello, have you tried checking this box as ‘Last used mode’ in settings?

Your problem does not happen to me ever, on 0.45 all the way up to 0.50. If it does not work I suspect you might have to reinstall cursor, as there might be a problem with cache on your local machine (happened to me with similar problem).

[samhaaf]

1. The problem I see with the “Last used mode” default is that it doesn’t really speak to the issue. The issue is that the default model within the Agent mode is defaulting to Auto, instead of gemini. Setting the default mode to “Last mode used” will just set the mode to Agent, which is the current behavior.

2. I have reinstalled the most recent version of cursor.

Right now I’m testing out using a custom “mode” even though the custom mode model selector is broken. I have yet to see if the custom mode reset to “Auto” model and it might take a number of days to confirm.

[liquefy]

I still suggest to use the settings I mentioned. While it does not specifically describe your issue, it might fix it. It is just 3 clicks away.

[samhaaf]

I appreciate your help. I’m gonna see if my new mode works for a couple of days and if it doesn’t work then I will try switching to the last used mode. If that doesn’t work then I will reinstall cursor again.

[articraftor]

Please delete "Auto" model toggle. I do not want any chance of triggering what so ever

I do not ever want to use this feature at all. Please have registry entry, settings, anything to completely disable “Auto” mode. Toggling is not enough. I do not want to have any instance of my development to trigger “Auto” mode. Some how secretly this option turns on. I do not want to know the cause, I do not care. I just want to be in control of my model selection, and I do not wish cursor to change that choice.

I’m with you

[paulmis]

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

+1. Every time I wonder why the answer is so bad it takes me a minute to realize it autorouted the request to some random model. For me the temporary workaround is to disable all model access but 3.7.

I understand you need to balance performance with cost but this is so clearly not it. If you’d like to compromise do it like you did it with rules - some prompting is done under the hood, but my explicit prompt is the ultimate oracle. Same here, perhaps give me suggestions, but ultimately let me set the right model for the job and don’t override it without my permission.