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Describe the Bug
I’ve been using Cursor Agent and Chat for a few weeks and today (17th of December) Cursor Agent started saying “Generating…” indefinitely. I let it run for a few minutes before realising that it was never going to finish.
So I simply used “Chat” for the day to do my work. Then at around 15:30 (UK time), Chat also started behaving the same way and now I can’t generate anything.
Both Chat and Composer both just say “Generating…” whenever asked anything. It’s not saying I’ve run out of credits, or that I don’t have access to the internet. So I have no idea what it could be.
Steps to Reproduce
Try typing anything into Chat or Composer
Expected Behavior
It should respond
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
To resolve this issue, you can try starting a new session by clicking the + icon at the top. We’ve also released version 0.44, which fixes this. You can read about the update here:
I also updated to 0.44 thinking it was going to solve the ‘generating forever’ bug but Ive had several instances today where the generations have stopped working-- sometimes I restart and it starts generating then. Its making cursor a miserable experience / unusable. I keep having to retry retry retry to get it to start and when it does it starts streaming immediately. I bought extra fast requests too/ still no joy.
I personally wouldn’t do any work with it where you need agent composer to work or expect it to finish reliably— I’ve heard someone say it only affects agent mode but I havent tried regular composer or chat enough yet to confirm.
it definitely affects agent mode - 0.44 still doing the same thing. i did have a bit better result using normal composer mode but it makes the workflow much more difficult for me after using agent mode…was really hoping this update would have addressed it
Thanks @rishabhy for the help. On my end the new 0.44.2 Cursor resolved the issue. Also in the older 0.43 version, I can start a new composer (by clicking the [CMD N +] button) to get around it.
Restarting and/or starting a new chat/composer(normal/agent) doesn’t fix it.
Edit: I just visited my settings page and I’ve reached my 500 fast requests. I’m not sure this is the reason why it stopped working or if I burned my last requests trying to get it to work.
Anyway, I have usage-based pricing enabled and a limit set. So even if that was it, it should be working.
Edit 2: Went to bed. Came back, and now everything is working fine. Someone had ■■■■■■ up the infra I guess…
This bug is not resolved and is still happening (March 2025).
I’m using the latest version of Cursor.
Switching model does not help.
If i start a new chat, 9/10 times i have the same problem, and the 1/10 times i get a response it goes back into an endless “generating…” loop after about 10 seconds.
I have plenty of credits remaining.
I’ve tried both my own API key and also using the standard Cursor setup (no custom api keys) - i have the same behaviour in both cases.
I have a small project (< 2000 lines of code)
i do have several cursor rules files, but if i remove those, i get the same issue,
I have tried switching restarting everything just in case that helps (it doesn’t)
