What has changed in the last couple weeks?
I’ve been using Cursor Pro for 2-3 months now. It’s an amazing tool opening up so many possibilities for me, however I find myself having daily issues with different models, with only short sprints of it actually working functionally.
For the first month I was mainly using Claude 3.7 thinking. It was amazing, doing exactly what it’s supposed to. Then over time it seemed to get more and more “dumb” - forgetting things, breaking things, incapable of simple tasks, and it got to the point that it honestly was like it had severe alzheimer’s. This wasn’t subjective, it was simply getting ludicrously unusable. 3.5 seemed better at first, but then fell into a similar pattern.
After this I switched to Gemini 2.5 Pro 03-25, and this was like night and day… INSANELY BETTER! Doing what it should do, even better than Claude 3.7 did - no fluff, no confusion, straight to the point, correct edits. I was loving this and felt very confident continuing with that model.
For the last 2 weeks I’ve had to take a break from my Cursor projects due to other work. Upon returning yesterday, to my disappointment Gemini has completely changed from what it was 2 weeks ago…
Now Gemini (I believe 05-06 now right?) makes excruciatingly long and detailed thought processes and plans, then when it tries to execute, has constant code edit and tool failures. It cannot do any edits now!
Claude 3.7 doesn’t seem to have alzheimer’s like it did 2 weeks ago, but it’s pretty useless as well unfortunately. It just goes in circles making the same edits, or thinking it’s making edits, but no code is changing (like just now went for 10mins straight in circles making a simple edit only to have zero functional changes).
I’ve tried some GPT models and they just sit there thinking and reading files not actually doing anything.
I could try more models in the list like Grok but honestly it doesn’t seem like much is working right now.
What happened to Gemini in the last 2 weeks? Is it just the update to 05-06 that has teething issues?