R-I-D-I-C-U-L-O-U-S explanations no… the Custom Mode with only the Edit tool enabled will count each snippet/edit as a separate AI request… and with no tools enabled will just output the snippets without button/UI to apply them to the codebase.. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO RECREATE THE “MANUAL EDIT” BEHAVIOR IN THE CURRENT VERSION OF CURSOR
And for MAX MODE I don’t know if you realize how du*mb what you said sound sorry, the point is: IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO RECREATE THE “MAX MODE” BEHAVIOR IN THE CURRENT VERSION OF CURSOR … do you understand what “NOT POSSIBLE” means? it means even if I had to click OK through 10 WARNING DIALOGS EACH TIME then I would still not be able to use the old “MAX MODE” behavior .. AND THAT IS DUMB, YOU ARE OVER-REACHING YOUR PURPOSE AS AN IDE, the content of the user’s intent with the provider’s machine learning business product IS BEYOND YOUR PURVIEW for you to interfere
LOL Cursor that’s it for me I am out this month, with or without refund You can see it is compressing/truncating my context files (EVEN THE DATABASE schema.ts FILE !!!) even in MAX MODE… and they remove the Manual Edit mode so you see their “Ask” mode wasted a series of 8 x 250k requests (that is $1.5 ) where normally 3 weeks ago before their sneaky silent changes I would first use Gemini 2.5 Pro in MAX MODE in Manual Edit with my full codebase of 300k tokens, then use Gemini 2.5 Pro in non-max mode in Agent mode to solve the remaining typescript errors. So basically, someone must be sabotaging Cursor from within, because they can’t be that du*mb to mindlessly mess up into a garbage an once-upon-a-time excellent product.
In fact there is a oneliner reason for leaving Cursor: their silent change to “MAX MODE” now compresses the context, so you can’t use Gemini 2.5 Pro 1 Million tokens context in Manual Edit mode (even if you are ok with the requests cost of 1M tokens) … this is the most ridiculous non-sense absolutely non-negotiable (and their removal of Manual Edit mode feature); I think someone is trying sabotage Cursor, they can’t be that du*mb in such a short period of time?
(and I think moving to Windsurf won’t solve the problem, as they have a non-configurable max 64k tokens context window per request?)
hmm OK I know, I will move to Google Gemini CLI github-com/google-gemini/gemini-cli unless folks at Cursor fix their mess by next week, and that should be pretty easy to do unless they don’t want to do it…