Since the rollout of GPT-5 in cursor, I have seen a DRAMATIC DECREASE in the usefulness of Cursor.
There is no explanation anymore to help understand and follow the thought process ← this makes it impossible to steer the model in the right direction anymore.
Cursor stops in the middle of a fix asking for confirmation for some obvious thing (“Shall I continue fixing the issue?” ← Obviously YES!!)
My productivity with Cursor has dropped MASSIVELY: things that used to take 15mn now can’t be done in less than 2 hours!!
This is is BAD!!!
Steps to Reproduce
Open Cursor
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Expected Behavior
Open cursor
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Operating System
Linux
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Can you please update to the latest version (1.4.5) and see if the issue persists? The team has shipped a few improvements.
GPT 5 has been working great for a lot of people, but since it’s sometimes slower than other models, so I personally use sonnet 4 for some tasks. GPT 5 High has been great to create plans and brainstorm with though.
@VIVAN-RANGRA I’ve seen gemini 2.5 pro do that. Can you try claude 4 (the non-thinking version)? That works pretty fast and has almost similar performance in my personal testing. GPT 5 also works well.
I’ve also seen this happen when you try to do too many things in one request. Try to break down the things you need to do, solve a specific problem in one chat. You can open another chat for the next problem.