Why does Cursor Auto mode display garbled text?

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Cursor overthinking and token noise.

Steps to Reproduce

Just text shows like token noise in the thinking process.

Expected Behavior

It should give in plain english.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.6.19 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 224838f96445be37e3db643a163a817c15b36060
Date: 2026-03-12T04:07:27.435Z (5 giorni fa)
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.5.0

For AI issues: which model did you use?

Sonnet 4.6, Premium, Composer 1.5, GPT codex 5.3

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable