What were the things that Cursor couldn't "fix" for you?
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Hello PH!
I'm Hyuntak form South Korea, quite new to this community, first time posting.
I'm a med student and solo developer.
Cursor did deal with hassles that would otherwise have me glued to the monitors for days.
BUT, cursor(actually, the AI) did made things harder in some cases.
Not to mention what I call "the loop of errors" - when you ask the AI to resolve error A, it makes error B, and then to resolve error B, it makes error A,
the extreme case was the ai suggested me to create a whole new project and migrate my current codebase, which wasn't the case.
As a fellow Cursor user, could you share your moment of "loop of errors" or extreme suggestions that the Cursor(ai) made?
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I had a basic PHP website that I was trying to get up and running from 6 years of not touching it. Cursor did add a bunch of debugging code to help visualize what the error was (I know I could've used the Browser Tools MCP to help with this). The issue I had wasn't so much the loop of errors but more of extra debugging code that I didn't need. It started making my files hard to read. I could have prompted to get rid of all the debugging code but then it became hard to see what diffs were made from 10 chats ago that actually helped fix the site. You'll see a lot of the issues people are having in the Cursor forum like this thread.
@alchen Debugging codes that I created with Cursor did really need a lot of manual touch too. Sometimes it was about the logic, sometimes it was about the correct order of checking things.
Having read the forum articles you've linked, I remember having the same issue too - Cursor updates getting worse. The updates (which were quite frequent) were also one point of "what worked well yesterday suddenly stopped working today."
Seems like it wasn't only me having these cursor issues. But I not totally disappointed with Cursor tho. It's still my little helper for my better coding experience! Thanks for sharing your story!