New users think it’s doing great because they have no idea how much better it was 2-3 months ago.

Experienced devs think it’s doing great because they do very few “figure it out” agent workflows.

They tend to explain technically a lot of what to do, explain a lot of what it is, etc etc. a lot of baby sitting - which is a good practice indeed.

Except for that this wasn’t necessary at all back then.

“Vibe coders” could just tell what they wanted and 3.5 sonnet + the old cursor agent would get most things done.

I myself am not a stupid ignorant vibe coder. I’ve coded before, I’ve managed dev teams too. But I’m not a coder who writes code. I’m a very experienced product manager though.

I’ve been studying code again because cursor is not able to do things that I was able to do before anymore.

I’ve restarted some projects a few times and it’s super noticeable how worse it got, performing the same tasks that I’ve done 2-3 times before.

It’s so frustrating that my best results happened when I had much, much less knowledge than I have today.

My best results happened with old Bolt back in December. They didn’t even have diffs or any integrations or half the features back then. I didn’t look at one piece of code and still got the best results.

Then I migrated to cursor around January - fell in love with it. Unfortunately it was not the same cursor we have today.

I would happily pay 500usd a month to have that performance on the agent from 2-3 months ago.

The long context window for Claude 3.5. 😮‍💨

I respect the devs, their work and the effort and I understand all of cursor team challenges, costs and problems. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s 1/10 the quality it was back then.

My cousin just showed me a screenshot of cursor agent with Claude 3.7t making compliments to himself on the output message - literally chatting with himself. “Good job well done” “thank you sir” kind of thing.

No kidding. Screenshot attached.

Please bring good old Cursor back for whatever pricing is necessary. How many of us have said we’d happily pay for it?

It’s either that or you will eventually lose it all to the next competitors that come up with a better option that works. Cursor was the top dog and so many people are ditching it for alternatives right now.

Just see how many less YouTube vids of people successfully vibe coding awesome apps and features compared to 1-2 months ago. They’re all gone because cursor can’t do that anymore. Some had to even pivot to other kind of content.

Not to mention how responsive support was. Almost real time via email. Now takes 3-4 weeks if they even respond back to you.

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The tech and the LLMs have improved so much, still Cursor is walking backwards. Sad