Is cursor even reading the code?

Sometimes I feel like even though I have my codebase indexed, and in my questions litearlly point cursor to where it should look and what to look at, it seems to not do it and instead gives me some general answer to a very specific question. Anyeone else having this issue?

The copilot++ seems to work well though.

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Do you have an example?

I paste in context - at least a relevant method or such - every single time I ask Cursor a question. Get used to it and you’ll get 10x better results. In fairness, I haven’t found an AI pair programmer yet that actually really indexes entire codebases and understands them deeply. I think of them more like a stethoscope that you can put on a particular piece of your code.

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Only if you ask it to. Referencing files or doing ctrl enter will not actually make it read the code, you need to tell it to read the code.

I assume this is there way of reducing costs as everyone it hitting that ctrl+enter constantly