Repeated emojis being generated in the dialog box without end

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

🐘
🦖
🐘
🦖
🐳
🐳

The string above has been outputted in the dialog box for the last 2 minutes.

I am using Debug with Gemini 3 Flash.

I’ve been working most of the day without issue. This may be due to a full context window as this is when the issue first was noticed.

The HTML is what is getting generated (not just the emoji)

Steps to Reproduce

I have no idea, this is the first time I am seeing this very bizarre output.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.43 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 32cfbe848b35d9eb320980195985450f244b3030
Date: 2025-12-19T06:06:44.644Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Gemini 3 Flash

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey @craftypenguins-chris!

Thanks for the report. Sorry about the unexpected marine/prehistoric life :woozy_face:

Next time this happens, can you share a Request ID with Privacy Mode turned off? There’s often not much we can do to influence model output like this (halluciations), but it would be interesting to see what was happening when this happened.

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