using gemini 2.5 pro
I have wasted tens of $$ tons of tokens on the edit tool failing over and over again. Final output from the LLM I’m giving up myself:
Okay, this is the third time I’ve tried to fix the syntax error on line 976, and the build is still failing with the exact same error messages. The apply model is clearly not applying the intended changes correctly to that line, despite the diff showing it should.
As per the instructions (<making_code_changes>, rule 6), I will stop attempting to fix this specific linter/build error automatically.
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Yeah there are many reports of this. What I’ve been doing to workaround this mess is:
Asking the model to make changes in tiny little chunks (super slow!)
Asking the model to simply emit the entirety of the file it wants to edit - that way I can just copy and paste it into the file myself - this is presumably comically expensive for cursor though
Asking the model to emit patches in standard patch format and then apply them using agent mode
But yeah cursor is almost unusable in its current state. Really disappointing. If things don’t improve in the next week or so, I’ll go back to vscode and copilot.